New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
lose-Up of the
German Dele
gates at Zurich
0URICH, May % (By MaiD -


in fact, two or three are as fat as
the proverbial German frau. A few
are thinner then when / saw them a
few years ago at The Hague. And
many have red, pimpled faces, the
result of sandstone soap and ill
ldigested substitute foods. But over
an hangs the shadow of starvation,
a shadow so black that in spite of
their unanimous verdict against
Germany's signing the treaty, re-
sistance seems impossible. The
blockade torrents them more than
the clauses of the treaty. Stories
of hunger outweigh their plants of
the severity of the terms of peace. .
/, To be sure, a rosy fraulein from
Stuttgart has told me that she suf-
fered little from lack of food. And
outside the garden of the hotel
l. can see a Herr professors wife
from North Prussia waddling down
the flower bordered path, so stout
she can hardly catch her breath and
at the same time talk to the Amer
lean correspondent beside her. A
Swedish woman sits beside me at
breakfast who travelled eight days
to reach the conference Ga normal
,three-day journey. The other
morning she described for me the
students in Heidelberg, in gay col
ored caps, still singing their songs
Of "Old Heidelberg" and drinking
their somewhat diluted) beer while
girls in white dresses fitted and
hirted about them.
On the whole this same Swedish
delegate found Germany stricken,
silent, oppressed 'lke house where
a corpse is laid" She said that in
Berlin her bag was carried by lit
tie boy who asked tearfully, "When
are the Americans coming to stay in
al Germany? My brother in Co.
logne says the soldiers give him
bread In Berlin, too, delegates
from Holland report that the sta
-tions on Sunday were crowded with
people with bags slung over their
backs, returning from all day trips
to the country for herbs and few
half-grown vegetables.
y A tiny supply of meat goes to the
rich. The poor have none except
when horse falls dead from hum
ger IN the street. The usual ration
Tor the poor is piece Of bread and
a few beans or carrots. Their
clothes are made of paper or bag
glng, for decent clothes are too ex-
pensive "a workingman's blouse,
Tor instance, now costs 400 marks,
or about s23.
The babies are the chief victims
OF starvation. DR.. Stoecker esti-
mates so per cent of the babies
porn in 1878 to have died.
She says the babies in institutions
are better off than most babies in
melr homes since they get a little
milk allotted 20 them daily.
Frau Stoecker reports that illegit-
macy in Germany has not increased,
q nearly all men have been at war,
put she admits that moral conditions
a. the front were shocking beyond
description.
~ The Austrian delegates are hag-
sard and strained and show the
sshs OF actual starvation. Among
saem IS Frau Kulke, teacher, So
e'ai worker and we'll known femin-
M. remember her four years ago
a. Inc Hague-always slight, but
siear-skinned and healthy. Here in
Auficn l scarcely know her, hollow
cyed, mottled skin drawn over pro-
uudlng bones, hands like birds
claws.
The death rate is so terrific that
Minerals are held no longer, but
ss1shts wrap the little bodies in
saspapers and take them on the
s-burial. ava
"eh the women from Central
Europe pack up to go back they will
allowed to carry with them two
s,unds Of Swiss purchases. BY
nsoiscIte, it was discovered that the
sussrsal choice is soap and choco-
II will last a little while"
t. ,y say sadly, and l reply cheer
1 Yes, until you sign the
10y and American food will be
snt into Germany ~ =
ahey shake their heads empbati-
ss'.y--though they admit the Ger
hs would have made a harder
re harder than Brest.Litoysk. }"
49, ~ feel that they are decciyinp
rs sm e and me az they jealousy
indie their packages Of soan and
oeoIate. y soap ana
ss, .ss Mary Chamb.,l.;.