New Britain herald., 1919-12-01
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 DI Karl Muck was evidently 50 any criticism of his country, or any report derogatory toward il, must necessarily be false, regardless oL its source, as the following letter, select cd from several in similar yein indi- catc3:
 The visit Of your father to V. Els puzzles me. I have been watched by detectives more than ever since the traitor Goricar (you have perhaps read of him in the newspapers) has pointed mo out in Washington as a ringleader in the plot to blow LID mu- nitions factories, etc. It is, of course. q miserable, cheap lie but neyerthe- less, the whole mob are day and : night on my trail and I have to be D ten times as careful on your account. On account of the scoundrel V. F. (N. E. IS a German acquaintance whom Muck believed had betrayed him) we are both sitting on a DOW der keg.
 KARL"
 Another letter. indicating the con- tempt of pr. Muck for the United States officials addressed to a girl reads:
 To-day just a few words. What. do you think Of the newest plot affair in New York? Madame Gadski's hus- band arrested. The officials here are ldlots or lunatics, that, men without any brain or men with a sick brain.
 KARL"
 ls < sion of the government indicate ary better the wholesale contempt which Dr. Muck had for America than one written from Cleveland, O., dated Jan. 26, 1917:
 Your letter of Monday arrived this morning early from Pittsburgh. You may believe me that the affair Of the Lusitania is nowhere more re- gretted than in Germany. Of course, only on the ground of common sense sand not on sentimentality.
 "The Russians in East Prussia have slaughtered about 1900 chill dren, from the age of to 6 years, in the most brutal fashion, having slashed them to pieces with sabers and thrown them alive into burning houses, and have violated and mutil- ated 5000 women and children and have murdered hundreds. Have any of the humanitarian. American gentle men protested at that? Oh, no, Rus sa buys war material here. The good merchant is always humane and fights against the Huns for civiliza- ton. '+And England, has been trying for i two and one-half years to starve to death 50,000,0OO million women and children. Has any of the humane Americans ever protested at that? Oh 'no England pays well-very well, in deed.
 'I can tell you that in the last two years Germany has fairly broken away from her chief failing in the last century-sentime mentality-and the few dozen women and children who unforturate went down on the Lus- itania cannot, of course, play any part 'An the feelings of the German people against the horrible fate of the many thousands of German women and children in East Prussia, and against the daily fight for life of hundreds of thousands of children whom England wants to give a prey to hunger, and 1t is to be regretted that the Lusitania affair, no doubt. was tragical because it gives perfidious England such eX- cellent material for agitation. Why, the Lusitania had to be sunk that will be later clearly explained: Everything which could happen to safeguard the fate of the passengers was done on Germany's part Three days before the departure of the ship there appeared the official warning of the German embassy that nobody should travel on English ships All sthe papers jokeds The. captain of the Lusitania publicly explained that his ship was perfectly safe, with it's dou- ble bottoms, etc, and that he could be hit with a few dozen torpedoes without sinking. .,,.
 Furthermore, the ship was so fast, and could maneuver so we'll that a . hit would be altogether out of ques- ton. Although . the submarine had already been 14 hours within shooting range, the captain waited with his torpedoes until the Lusitania was quite near the coast, only so that the rescuing boats could quickly and cas- fly reach the shore.
 "Also, experience has shown that ships which had only a fifth of the tonnage of the Lusitania could stay , afloat at least @ full hour, so that everybody could be rescued. The col ision Of the torpedo. and then in ten minutes the ship vanished and why? Because it was loaded to the deck