Evening journal., 1920-08-31
DR.. greenfield
NOW IN EUROPE
Sees Masts of Many Sunken
Ships Off Coast of
England
DESCRIBES GERMAN
U-BOAT CAPTAIN
Special to the Evenine Journal.

Special 10 the Evening Journal.
NEWARK, Aug. 3i.--An interesting
letter has been received by a local
friend from DR.. X. Roberts Greenfield,
for several years a member OF the
Delaware College faculty, who with
Irving Reynolds. a Delaware graduats,
sailed on the steamship MckeespOrt
for Europe last month. Dr.. Green
field goes 10 Yale University next
fall as assistant professor OF History.
He and Reynolds worked their pas
sage over. The letter which was
mailed at Antwerp, Belgium, was
dated August having been written
before they landed. Dr. Greenfield
devotes most OF HIS letter TO dcscrih-
ing a German pilot which the Nc
kecsport picked up and is very in
teresting II follows:
I'VE have anchored on the mouth
OF the Schcldl River, where we shall
have TO wait until o'clock this morn
ing for a tide 10 take us up 10 Ant
werp. / have plenty OF time and a
typewriter, and thought YOU might
be interested to hear about our Ger
man pilot.
we picked him up yesterday after
noon between Beachy Head and Hast
ines, "a big Austrian with a golden
mustache and goatee. IL presently
turned out that he is an ex-pllot OF
submarines. He may have steered
out from Cuxhaven The U-Roat that
sunk the Lusiiania. Certainly he has
guided through tho waters we were
travelling last night many an eiaissaiy
OF hatred and death 10 America OF
nnINIDh Ia In aa.IN
ships. As we dropped Dover Cliffs
behind us at sundown last night. ihe
skyline Of the North Sea. 10 the east
ward, fairly hristled-ihe word does
not exaggerate ones impression O.
with what looked like giant bayonets
thrust toward hoaven-iho masts OF
sunken ships We could count from
six 70 a dozen, and our Mate said
that they line the coast northward.
THE wind siiffened 10 a piping gale
IN the night, and the ship was hove 10
for awhile, As / listened tO7the howl
ing wind. reflected what an argu-
ment our situation was for the paci-
fist We Americans-who are slill al
war with Germany. forsoOth ! Lay
asleep on an American ship on which
not man knew this sea, with It's
sunken troacheries, but an 'eX-pilOl
OF German submarines on the bridge.
III Crecl propaganda or senatorial ora
tory meant anything, we should have
been as safe with witch as the foul
friend at The wheell
And this was no purified German
either. AT breakfast Just now he con
ndently predicted that the Bolsheviki
would trample Poland and sweep Ger
many and then" he said, "we will
get France down. 10 is the French
against whom an the hatred Of thi.
particular German is directed. Tn,
English have treated him well. W,
picked him up of Hastings, where hl
was flying his colOrs and plying hi
trade In plain sight Of his British
competitors. with apparently none L
make him afraid 10 occurred 10 m.
when we picked him up, that prob
ably we should find the Europeans fal
less vindiciivc, FAR more anxious /,
forget the war and bury the hldeoul
difference, than Americans who car
cody treat / as a political ball
our pilot talked freely this morn
ing. was interested in discovering
his prejudices-th English are gOing
down, too. he said I asked hin
what he thought OF the Kaiser. II,
Is not Germany. he replied. lie think,
hindenberg the real president Of Ger
many. When ! asked him why Hin
denberg called a halt on the Vol
kapp revolution. he said that Hinden
berg Is old and does not want trouble
and he added won Kapp was a damn
ed ass. His remark about the Kaise
might be taken 20 implicate the OLE