The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-06

Warning his hearers that Germany is seeking to set up similar world to that of 1914 which made possible the World War, and which will make possible other wars, Lieu tenant Coningsby Dawson painted a vivid word picture of conditions in the war torn countries that was most elightening to the audience that gathered in the High School As sembIy Hall last evening. Lieut.. Dawson spoke under the auspices of the Smith College Club of this city, Arthur M. Marsh introduced l the speaker. Lieut.. Dawson's topic was "Remaking the World"
 Lieutenant Dawson has been for | some months in Europe being sent l over by this government to make l survey of conditions. He spent con | siderable time in Germany where the attitude of the people surprised him greatly. What he found in Germany was vastly different than he had ex- pected. There was a general pros | perity and the air was that of conqueror country rather than one 1 supposed to be bending under the i heavy yoke of defeat
 As a matter of fact Germany be- l 1ieves she won the war and can give | mind the war was a commercial sue 1 cess, a short cut to world trade su- l premacy She wanted to crush her | rivals from an economic and com mercia1 standpoint and feels that she | has done so. Frances manpower is | depleted and the greater portion of the British trade carriers are at the bottom of the sea. Germany coveted 1 Russia and now feels that Russia is at her mercy any time she wishes to step in. France cannot rebuild her } factories until the first installment of the indemnity is paid by Germany . and this indemnity cannot be paid until the Allies furnish raw materials for the factories in Germany. Then the Allies must buy back the finish ed product in order that Germany will have the money to pay the indemnity
 Going further, the German says when asked what the Allies will be doing while Germany is building uT her trade supremacy, the Allies vii be at war America will be fighting Japan and England will be fighting India Rather a hard jo1t," said the speaker, when we thought we had just concluded a war that was sup posed to have put an end to all wars Stirring up class strife and social dis content is a German speciality. AS al example witness the great railroad strike that broke out in England i'm mediately following the signing of th' armistice.
 "Germany is not stirred up by in
 ternal strife. She has no use for tn IS Bolshevist except to use as 8, too a When she finds @ red hot Bolshevis h l she does not nurture him for hom r consumption. She fits him out wit = funds, accredits him as a secre K agent and sends him into anothe r country to spread his doctrines.
 "At the present time," said tn speaker, "Germany is the riches l. country in Europe with the excer 3. ton of Great Britain. Any All l. visiting there is received with srnilin 1T countenance. There is an obsequiou x. affability that makes one feel almos Ir ajbashed. I was in Berlin the day tn d Peace terms were made public. W
 had expected trouble and riots o
 that day. In fact scores of dread NJ naught tanks had been hidden in tt x- occupied area, tanks more terrib
 than any we had in the war. Scot - planes were hastily brought up read
 to fly over the roads when the Hu E would travel to reconquer the O. B eupied area As a matter of ia B there was excitement in Berlin tn; day but the only excited ones wei s the Allies, the Germans were III
 moved. You would have thought u H Germans had imposed the terms (
 the Allies The Germans do not r 5 gard the Allies in the occupied r - gions as their conquerors but the - guests"
 In opening his talk Lieutenant Dav f,-t+ the mutilated men, men who despi i the marvellous miracles accredited
 modern surgery would never be good as new again. Men woundt
 back in 1915 who were still going
 different depotS to get their art1ftc1
 limbs refitted. These are the mt
 who suffered, and who will suffer z
 their lives. They paid the highe
 price. Those who died got off easi
 in comparison. Despite the handical
 and some of them had to walk mil
 to get to the hospital they we
 cheery and as an accompaniment
 the tip-a-tap of their crutches
 wooden legs was their brave whis
 ling. This was the spirit that we
 far toward winning the war
 Lieutenant Dawson said that t
 only country in which he did not he
 the tip-a-tap men was Germany al
 that there are no mutilated men.
 one could explain this to him and t
 only light he got was from a Belg1
 who referred to the asparagus tra1
 as they were called that ran ba
 from the German front
 On these trains were punches
 dead bodies fastened together wi
 wire as are stalks of asparagus. Gt
 many is a thoroughly logical count
 and her reasoning probably was
 the effect that badly muti1ated m q was no good from an economic
 military point of view, hence the SC paragus trains. This idea" s; -io Lieutenant Dawson, may be libel ,1 it is the only explanation I was e' able to get.''