New Britain herald., 1924-10-15
BISHOP ACHESON
 TELLS 0F GERMANS
Do Not Anticipate War Of Re,
 yense---COnditions Abroad

The German people, as general rule, laugh at the idea of a war of revenge. said Rev. E. c. Acheson, suftragan bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Connecticut, at a meet ing of the Church club of the Conn ecticut diocese al the Hotel Burritt last night. He said that the former soldiers and the rich people encour- age the idea and talk up another Var, but the middle class and the general run ridicule such an idea.
 His talk, concerning a trip last summer through Germany. France and England, gave his hearers an insight into the real condition Of Germany and the other countries at the present time.
 He said, in opening his talk. that he had had great good fortune in the first place in that he had seen 149 ships of the British navy drawn up outside the harbor of Southamp- ton awaiting the review of King George, eHe told of the approach to the great ships. the dim outline through the mists resembling great forest of trees: then of the droning of many aeroplanes and of the final breaking away of the mists, disclos- 1 ing the giant cruisers. A sight never to be forgotten, was the way in which he expressed his emotions at that time.
 He spoke of a. strange tradition rife among British seamen, that of always running ships into harbors at full speed. In this way the captains | have become so sk.llful that they are able to enter any port in the world with engines running at full speed ahead" They must know the ways into every harbor in the world said the bishop.
 Heligoland Described
 Passing along on the way tc Germany the main thing attracting the attention was the aspect oi Heligoland, block 200 feet high rising straight out of the water. He said that the place has been dis, mantled since the war and is now | used as summer resort. The old fortress is gone. He said that the cliffs of Heligoland are i 1-2 mile: long and three miles around. Going through the Kiel canal one sees nothing formidable, said the speaker, although in war time there was danger at every turn. And then Up the Elba river. The speaker told at length of the beauties of this riv- CT, its mansions and the clean and well kept appearance of the land scape.
 At Hamburg, the next stop of the 1 bishops party, curious situation is met, he said. The surrounding coun- try is low and the ingenious Ger mans have dug out the earth with huge shovels, allowing the sea tc come in, forming numerous harbors a chain of them. The speaker saiG he took a boat and made a trir through the many harbors. He had heard, he said, that Germany was building warships for future time There was nothing of the kind ir sight. Not one smokestack did he see and the only ships greeting his eye were several waterlogged tubs lying at anchor or at wharves Hamburg is a beautiful town anC a delightful place in which to live said Bishop Acheson. The German! there are not bellicose and are no talking war. The attitude met to day is different in a marked degree from that met before the war. Ther they were very cocky. he said. Nov they act as beaten people, sensing that they are lacking something es sential.
 High Prices in Hamburg.
 High prices are met in all guar ters at Hamburg. Goods are yer.
 high. he said. The cost of article
 is about 25 per cent more than i
 New York city. He said he ha
 heard stories that the German
 would rob him if heestopped at
 hotel. To the contrary. they scene
 glad to have him stop at their place
 In conversations with them he sal
 that they were anxious to know tn
 opinisn the world has of them, the
 thought a great deal of the Dave
 plan and they also were of the opin
 ion that if their men had been train
 ed, they would have thought 0 something similar to that. They als
 were interested in knowing whethe
 or not loans would be granted. Kaiser a Coward.
 Everywhere, said the speaker. tn
 same thought is expressed: Tn
 Kaiser could not come back. H would be shot, according to most C the Germans. True, they say, tb Crown Prince and numerous other of the royal family are in Berlir