The daily banner., 1919-06-16
CURTIN THRILLS LARGE
CROWD SATURDAY NIGHT
Correspondent London Times Who
Went in And Out of Germany Dur
ing War Gives striking Instances
OF Germany's Struggle Against
The World.

The entertainment at the Cam
bridge Chautauqua, despite the fact
that it was Saturday night, when
the stores were open and many men
and women could not possibly at
tend, was splendidly patronized, the
musical program by the Melrose-Jor-
| dan Company drawing many, espe-
cially those who remembered the
previous occasions when Miss Mel
rose had delighted Cambridge audi
ences.
But while the presentations of the
Concert Company were very pleas
ing, resulting in the participants re-
spending to encore after encore, the
thing that had brought most Of the
crowd was to hear D. Thomas Cur
tin, who in his work as correSpOn-
dent for the London Times, had been
in and out of all of the belligerent
countries during the war, had had
exceptional opportunities of ascer-
tanning just what the conditions
we're in Germany during the period
just before and after the outbreak of
the war
Mr. Curtin stated that Germany,
at the outset, had wanted to throw
the blame for the war on Russia; that
is, on one Of her opponents, although
as a matter of fact, at a meeting held
several weeks before the actual dec
laration of war, at Potsdam, and at
tended by German and Austrian Of
fcials, war had been decided upon,
and the time between then and the
actual declaration had been spent in
putting the country upon war ba-
sis; that is, arranging with the fjnan-
many to be on a war basis at tho mo-
ment the actual declaration came.
However, to secure the preteXt for
the actual declaration, a trick was
played. The paper which was recog-
nized as the official organ of the gov
ernment, put out an extra one day,
announcing in bold headlines that
Germany had declared war; then,
little later, after the Russian AM
bassador had sent a dispatch to his
country announcing the mobilization
of the German II oops, the paper
came out with an extra announcing
that the statement in the previous
edition, however, was timed so as to
be put out too late for the Russian
Ambassador to correct the report
which he had sent, and Russian
mobilization had been started. This
cheap trick, deliberately prepared by
those in control of the German mill
tary policy, who knew that Russia
would mobilize as soon as the Rus
sian Foreign Office learned that Ger
many was doing so, was used as the
basis of attempting to place the
blame for the war on Russia.
Mr.. Curtin stated that one of the
things which particularly attracted
his attention was the cool delibera-
tion with which Germany set about
instilling hatred of the Allies into
her people. Public meetings were
held, under the auspices of the gov
ernment, in large and small places,
and the audiences were told that
they must nate everything that had
not the officials of the country. but
the people themselves, everything
that came from it, everything that
had anything to do with England
and her Allies, and later the same
methods were practiced against the
people of the United States. While
the Allied armies were marching to
battle under the strains OF '"Tippe-
rary,' There's a Long, Long Trail"
the only war song produced in Ger
many was the Hate Song" which
was sung not only by the armies, but
by the civilians just as we'll.
He told how IN the prison camps,
an English soldier would be taken to
one side by the officer in charge,who
would accuse him of attempting to
escape, and when he denied it,would
be told that his French associates in
the camp had squealed on him. and
then he would be sent to solitary
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