Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-14
TURKISH WOMAN DENOUNCES huns
BEGINNING REALIZE THAT THE AMERICAN
ARMY IN FRANCE is FACT-ANERICAN
NOT UNDERSTAND ATTITUDE
Second In stallment)
utable frauds.

lutable frauds.
- - A German-American With Ac- :. =.
- 49, cent ON the GERMAN. ........
And Herr Brunn s bureau had an as
sortment of men and women which ev-
cry nationality was represented. 1 will
never forge that thin, half-starved look.
| ing man who so eomieally wore the
small American flag upside down and
claimed that he was an American and
that Americans were an ignorant lot
of men and women and how, in that
land the rich ruled the mob relentless
ly. But when 1 asked him if he could
speak the language spoken in that coun.
Try he became really angry and shouted
at ne rudely: cam Ia liar then9When
tell you that am an American don It
you think that l should speak their nat
ed language2" His accent was so OBJ
viously Teutonic that I could not sup
press myself from remarking to him:
eyes you SHOULD speak their langu
age but you do not. He closed the
conversation by telling me that for the
first time in his life he was compelled
to tell a woman that she was not lady.
And for the benefit of my readers I
must say that he made this short speech
in his good native German.
However, the Brunn bureau is lately
in small favor IN the eyes of the Ger
man Foreign office, especially during
the regime of Herr Kuhlmann. Evident
ly the Foreign office learned that the
disreputable accortment was hardly
worth their feed.
German Official Statements
Contradictory.
During home propaganda lecture,
conducted by the pan-Germanic Party,
an officer on leave from the front at
tempted to prove to his hearers that
very few Americans had been able so
far to come across to France and that
the German submarines had already ac-
counted for more than $4,000 American
troops. This remark met the derision
here and there but the great majority
Of the audience behaved as though they
believed the speaker. Then soldier
stood up and as he faced the speaker
everyone noticed that he was one-armed
and wore his war cross. In his onsy
hand he held a bunch of newspaper
clippings and Informed the lecturer that
these were from the official announce
ments given out by Berlin newspapers
since Americas entrance in to the war.
He read one after another of them
" According to thu official statement
said he "we must believe that no more
than $4,000 Americans have reached
France, but according to the same Off
cial statements we are urged to believe
that our armies have captured 10000
Americans. We are not FOOLS, if you
cannot tell the truth you better hold
your speech!" Then terrible commo-
tipn followed. The shouts from the au-
dience, "Answer! answer him truthful
lyl" could be heard above all other an
CRY remarks. The pan-German party
had eight other NEE tings. arranged for
that week which did not take place at
ter this disturbance. | learned alter
wards that the soldier who broke up
that pant German meeting had been i'm
prisoned for disturbing meeting and
speaking in derogatory manner
against the German government.
Think Peace on Their Own Terms
Theirs For the Asking.
But do not wish my readers to think
that the German people are awakened
into making moral protests against their
governments imperiahstic policy. The
German people are thinking but they
are not yet capable of thinking about
the moral issue. Their one thought is
to end the war as soon as possible. 1t
matters not how the government at
tains peace as long as they obtain it.
They are not concerned how and by
what means their rulers would secure
it if they only return back to condi-
tions of former days They seem to
think that it is in the power Of their ru
lers to obtain peace whenever they are
willing to obtain it. They have been
fed so consistently with map victories
that they think that their enemies would
be glad to accept any peace offering,
and they only criticize their government
for not making it easier for France and