Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-27
Nearly Every Householder Has
Paper Showing He Was
Forced to Give Up VaIuabIeS
Under Military ReQuiSition.
ONE GENERAL BECAME
"ATTACHED" TO BED
Main Thing Remembered
About General Won Arnim
Was His Greed and That He
"StuCk Out His Chest"
BY Joseph ". Grigg.
Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publish
ing Co

(The New York WORLDLY
Especial Gable to the World and AL
buquerque JournalD
On the British Front, oct. a6,---Fol-
lowing the trail Of the laisers legions
the last few days has divulged the eX-
tent of the economic scheme of rob-
berry introduced during the last four
years in occupied French and Belgian
territory--that is, reign Of fear on
hitherto unknown scale.
Nearly every shopkeeper and
householder has q receipt for some
thing mulcted by the invaders, most
of them, as these people realize, alb
solutely worthless. But for at least
one stolen bed no receipt was given.
Gen. Sixt Won Arnim liked the French
bed he had used for four months in
Roubaix so well that he just took it
away with him.
attached" to Furniture.
Two members of his staff liked the
carpets in their room SO much that
they took them, but gave receipts,
which their French owner showed me.
Roubaix was Won Anims headquar-
ters for four months and was one of
the many places the kaiser visited in
recent months. | talked with several
civilians in whose houses Won Arnim
and his staff lived. All these places.
like others, were mulcted of copper
utensils and searched for gold, or had
wool removed from mattresses, with
the exception of the mattresses on
which the geneRatand his staff slept
and dreamed OF y,etory.
The man in whose house Won Arnim'
lived told me that the general used
to "stick out his chest" which was
what a waitress at a hotel in Ostend
yesterday told me the kaiserfs son
Prince Adalbert did when he COM
manded marine regiment Mt 0stend.
This Teutonic weakness for protruding
the chest was not habitual. and ceased
when the tide Of defeat set in, but the
habit of taking things increased when
defeat became certain. One hotel man
in Ostend told me 5000 bottles of wine
were removed from his cellars during
the course of the war and receipts CIV
en-. In Roubaix and Turcoing, | head
of similar instances.
soldiers Hate Officers.
The more wine there was for the Of
ficers and the better their food, the
lliolS uiootAIloLlCu bNNttlllG SilS tIullhty
soldiers.
"Since August the Germans have
been getting very poor rations," said
one resident of RoubaiX who had been
a prisoner in Germany the first sixteen
months of the war. one spoonful of
marmalade and 200 grammes of bread
was their regular evening meal just
before they evacuated Roubaix. All
the German soldiers outspokenly adj
mitted complete defeat, caring only
for the end of the war, no matter how
1t came.
1T was no uncommon sight to see
a German soldier, when the back of
his officer was turned, shake his fist
at his hated well-fed superior"
This conversation is symptomatic
of many | have heard during the last
three days on trip of more than 400
miles through the relieved territory,
where l have witnessed scenes of en-
thusiasm | shall never forget. Child
rem and adults surged through the
streets, cheering every one in an al
lied uniform, decorating every motor
lorry or motor car with flags and
flowers, tears mingled with joyous
,Cununued on rage 1Wo.J