The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-17
J. 5. TROOPS IN GERMANY ARE
 LAMBASTED
Chancellor Wirth's Organ Attacks Conduct of Amer ican Troops of Occupa- ton.

Berlin, Oct. 17.-Frequent lauda- tory articles in the German press con trasting the behavior of the American troops of occupation in Coblenz with that of the French and British forces have proven too much for the Ger mania, Chancellor Wirth's organ, to bear. In a leading article by a staff reporter, the Germania tries to show that the Americans aren't as angelic as they have been painted.
 ''1t Is a common impression that the conditions in American occupied territory are more favorable tnd bear able for the German population than in the French or British areas. This belief that Americans have not caused the population in their zone as much annoyance as 1t has suffered in neigh boring areas is far from true. Unfor- tunately one must say that the case is quite the opposite.'
 Germania then follows with a long article on the memorable demands of the American officers; the leading in dictments in the list of atrocities run as follows:
 1. ".An American officer demanded that one of the rooms in his lodging
 be refinished with new wallpaper. His wife picked out the wallpaper, which cost 250 marks a roll, which any Ger
 man would consider expensive and luxurious. After half year the Amer ican woman decided that the tails of the Birds of Paradise printed on the wallpaper were of an unpleasant vel low color. She demanded that the city commandant order a painter, who re- painted the tails; the question: of the cost, naturally, meant nothing to her.
 2. Another landlady complains that a family consisting of two per sons requires no less than 32 towels and 12 to 15 tablecloths monthly
 3. "A sad chapter in the history of the occupation is made up of the
 daily assa ultS on the population by Americans, especially after the first of the month, when they have re- ceived their pay. Too free use of all cohol is in many cases the cause. The American authorities have it in their power to put an end to this undisci- plined and barbarouS condition by | energetically punishing the guilty parties. Perhaps the insignificant penalties are responsible for the fact that there has not been improve ment."
 The Germania goes on with a de- tailed picture of how difficult it is for a German hausfrau to get dinner in a l1<itchen where the American officers wife is also doing her cooking, and woman installed her cookstove in a toilet room as the only place she could cook in peace.
 After the superlative adjectives the erally expended in describing the con- ditions in the French area, especially
 in the small towns where colored troops have been quartered, the at tack against the American forces seems trifie ridiculous. "The battle of the kitchen range" may be serious during the conflict; but. after all, it is not as dreadful as the official book of atrocities which the Foreign Office has given out, in which not a single American case is mentioned.
 The Germania finds the American punishments of its soldiers too light. 1 Only @ few months ago another Ber- | lin writer attacked the Cob1enz forces, declaring that in the worst days of Prussian militarism the Kaiser's of | f1cers had never dared lay such severe l sentences on soldiers as the American military courts are meeting out to of | lenders in the Rhine Army