The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-18

analysis, was in control of the army
He took one look at the American
automobile and then at me.
well, I'll be damned" he said il
perfect English. "What are you do
ing here?"
Il Just rode around this way t.
take a-look at you fellows" replied
But, tell me, where did you learr
to speak English so well?"
"Out' in San Francisco. MY folks
took me to America when l was q
year old, and we lived in California
for IL years. Then my father died
and my mother brought me back t.
Germany"
l asked him if he could help me
get out Of the traffic jam and put me
on my way toward Treves.
"Sure thing l WILL" and he went
down the line, and. after a few min
i,tes, saw him talking to the colonel
Then he rode with me past the
lines Of troops and out into the coun-
try.
Another Who's Been in America
Tn going to telephone Fritz Har.
ris at Treves to meet YOU" he said
as he took leave. Harris is the
sailor who started the revolution in
the navy at Kiel. He's been in Amer
lea hundred times himself, and
speaks English like we do"
Harris, who met me at Treves, told
me all about the revolution.
"There were about $4,000 of us
sailors with the fleet up at Kiel,' he
said, "and what do you think the old
sapheads down at Berlin proposed to
do with US? They wanted to spur the
people on to continue the war, so they
said they'd send us fellow out to fight
all the allied ships, and that, if twenty
or forty thousand Of US got killed, that
the German nation would be shocked
into making one more supreme effort
or the western front.
"NoW, wasn't that peach OF an
idea? Well, Fritz Harris here wasn't
boob enough to go out and die for that
damned Hohenzollern gang, that lev-
err went nearer the fighting than the
concrete dugouts in the back areas.
So, we organized the sailors on every
ship, including the submarines:
Tells of Revolt of Sailors at kiei
"And, when the day came and they
told us to get ready to go out and
die, we sad Nothing doing! An
officer ON my ship thought he would
bluff us into submission, and he pulled
out his gun and threatened to hire
on us. -,
$50 we found it necessary to kill
q few of the higher-ups, who loved
their kaiser better than they did their
own or our lives. After that they
just turned all the ships over to US.
1--WE left enough men to keep the
ships from being recaptured, and
thousands of US scattered to every
nook and corner of the country,
spreading the revolution.
at took a lot of fellows who had
been in America and other free coun-
tries to pull off the revolution in Ger
many. The German, people needed
some imported ideas about freedom"
Harris passed me on from one
council of soldiers and Workmen to
another. E4 ~ q,
At. Coblenz FIVE of the ~ members
Of the Soldiers and Workmens' coun,
Gil spoke English. Two of them said
they had been in America and three
had been students in England.
Organized Just Like Tammany
But it was at Frankfort that l got
my biggest taste ofsAmericanism. In
this city of nearly six hundred thou
sand the real boss behind the reyolu-
ton was Walter Loeb, who, five years
ago, was a young manufactures with
offices on Broadway, New York. 4
Loeb, woh had never been natural
lied in America, came back to Ger
many in 1914 and joined the colors..
II never did take any, stock in this
me and Cod stuff of the kaiser"
Loeb told me. $50, when l got IA
chance, I just jumped into this revolu,,
tionary movement with both feet and
this old town just like
Tammany has New York organized. !
got around me every, fellow who'd
ever been in America, and we put
Frankfort in the revolutionary column
with the loss of only two lives:
Eugene Hess, a wealthy leather
manufacturer, is member of the
Soldiers and Workmens' council at
Frankfort. He told me he had made
three trips a year to America for the
asst 20 years.
1.-THE name Soldiers and Work
mems council is misnomer,' Hess
said. Here, in Germany, lyman
Who isn't noble or All aristocrat, but
Who earns a living through his own
Efforts is classed as worker On
;hese councils you'll find men from
every walk Of life: Labor unions, SOL
liers, manufacturers and profession
II men,"
At Berlin, Scheidemann told me:
4 spent some time in America SIX
5ears ago, and came back with my
read chockfull of governmental ideas.
We been fighting ever since to put
hem into effect. With the kaiser and
lis crowd gone, we're in a fair way
o establish republic here like yours
n America"
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