Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-09
GERMANS :.
VIEW RUINS Of
WAR IN HORROR
French Guides Take ENJOYS
and Newspaper Men Thru
Devastated Area VaIuabIeI
Lesson, Say Visitors,
BY Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1918. by the Press Publish
ing Co
(The New York WORLDLY
Especial Gable Dispatch.)

Especial Gable DisPatch.)
Berlin, May S-Dr Alexander
Redlich. the Versailles correspondent
of the Vossische Zeitung, whose hobby
is a harmless propaganda for con-
tinental league against the Anglo-SaX-
on world. based upon Franco-Ger-
man alliance, telsgraphs his paper
The French government evidently
wanted the German delegates TO see
themselves the unhappy region de-
vastated by the war before appearing
before the peace conference. This
lesson was valuable one, and the
horror which no sensitive human be-
ing escaped on this trip does more to
explain many things than hundred
sittings and long speeches No. we
were not given a friendly welcome on
those. scenes of sorrow, This people
suffered heavily from the war and
who can get angry because il is not
ours and is the enemy's?"
Tefls of icy Politeness."
Ralph Brandt, the correspondent of
the once militarist and annexationist
Tagliche Rundschau, chronicles an
'icy politeness" from the French in
transit adding, 20 diplomat seemed
to be a memory" Brandt kicks dis
creetly over the restrictions of person
al liberty to which the delegation is
subjected He gathered the. impress
sions on his'first walk that it was nee
essary for the authorities to protect
the Germans from the populace, and
concludes:
1T is emphasized that we are citi-
Gems o ia country with which a statei
OF war still exists. and this assumption
conditions all intercourse. + ann cen-
WINGED that nothing Will be left undone
which will break the nerve of the Ger
mans in Versailles before the peace
conditions are submitted"
Weather and Spirits Gloomy.
Paul Block, the Tageblatt's CORE
epondcnt, writes: Tho weather is cold (
and rainy and the beautiful park
ms l5es q sad impression and affords
an impressionistic comparison with
the spirits of many members Of the
German delegation"
Block finds the military surveil- !
lance in the Hotel Vatel, where the
newspaper correspondents are quar-,
tered very strict but conducted
with painstaking politeness. The sur
veiliance in the few streets free for
the Germans is conducted quite un-
ostentatiously. Going into stores and
buying things is temporarily forbid
den"
Freitz Stein, the Lokal-Anzeiger's
correspondent, says I'VE hear and
See nothing of the outer world except
the Paris papers, and they are not very
edifying"
Apathy in Berlin.
The utmost apathy is being dis
played in Berlin about the. peace CON
ference and Count Rantzau's arrival
in Versailles is not even featured
by the German press.
2 Considerable opposition has devel
oped against the governments idea
of submitting the peace question to
a plebiscite, the favorite argument
against it being that the German peo-
pie are not fit to pass judgment on
the peace terms and to decide their
own dostinies.
Fear to Commit People.
There is just as strong opposition
to a referendum in democratic circles,
where the argument is advanced that
if the Georman people vote in favor of
peace. the Germans will be bound
forever after, whereas, if the people
are not allowed to vote, and the gov
eminent or national assembly mere-
ly accepts the responsibility for the
signing of peace, an appeal to the peo-
pie is always possible at some future
time, leaving the door open for a re-
pudiation of the signed peace.
In all the discussions for and
against the signing of the terms Ger
man public opinion stubbornly as
sumes as a matter of course that the
peace terms as formulated violate
President Wilson'S fourteen principles.
Three large Mexican states, Yucca
tan, Sonora end Chihuahua, have
adonted prohibition