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The following front The Times, one of a series of uiticles by Mr F: Sefton Delmor, an Australian who has been in Germany throughout the war and left Berlin on May 23,
On
Mr Delmer from 3001 until 1914 hekla lectureship in English at the of Berlin, and at the end University of of the period he was also director of the English Seminary of the Berlin Commercial University. the outbreak of war he was deprived of all his positions and emoluments. From November, 1914, to Marth, 1915, he was interned at Ruhleben, and although he was then released, and consequently was able for more than two years to observe the de velopment of events in Perlin, nono of his repented applications. for re patriation was granted until last moath.
BERLIN TO LONDON How good it is to be back in England at last!
If ever I realized what liberty meana, liberty of thought and liberty al con science, it is now after having lived for nearly three years in an enemy country where there is neither. I scarcely dared
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date of England's capitulation to hunger grew vageer, and in private converse tions one heard doubts expressed as whether the sly British Government had
"TREATMENT OF GERMAN PET-
SONERS IN INDIA.
The following letter is taken from the Calcutta Stabsman :—
Sir-Seeing is believing Hoping to spend a quiet week end at a popular little bill-station in Western India, I arrived there the forenoon of a hot!
Tut very considerable stores of bread-summer's day and with great diffenity stuffs up its sleeve.
managed to secure part of room in a
It seems absurd that on entering this second-class hotel The best hotels in great city, the Mansion House of Liberty,, this delightful little station had been it should be the windows of the bakers taken up by Government for the lady of " German grocers' shops that excite butchers, and one's
chief interest, but such was the accommodation
had an prisoners and their children, and the case with
These shops had me uncanny fascination for me lmagine style they put on conveyed the bow great my relief was to see the impression that they were ladies at bounteous supply of everything, and the large spending their hubbys earnings shew windows simply brimming over At Ahmednagar I recognised several with good things, and everybody looking Germans. I had met in business, well nourished and content.
How diferent the state of affairs in in Burma, Calcutta, and Bombay and had the chance of speaking the German capital I had just left There the shop windows remind one of to a few of them, and all declared of those all maps of Africa on which
Geographers on pathiess down's Placed elephants instead of towEN. In "London it seemed to me almost comic to hear people here and there complaining of shortage, and dearness of
so believe my good luck tit food and to find some of them even in barbed wire enclamires there was
WITH
they were being treated exceedingly well Que poor fellow who for some months previous to the outbreak of war, had "rutten luck and a bad time of it" said he had learned what it was "to be anxious for nothing." Except for the agining that they were suffering hard nothing to indicate they were prisoners safely across the frontier in Holland.
When I caught sight of the Britishhen I asked there to any exactly for the air rang with their laughter flapping cheerfully in the North Sea where they felt the pinch they werest sad mirth, and everything around bresse over the British Consulate in first at a loss for an answer. Une coat bespoke of comfort and luxurious living At Belgaum,& quiet little station certain Dutch town my heart gave assured me that what touched him and abound.
I had to wait a few days at this Dutch his friends most nearly was the restric with a salubrious climate, and a favourite
tion. placed on the quantity of bread
resort for Europeana and Anglo-Indian port for the boat to England. The boats allowed at afternoon tea in the teashops. do not, it is true, cosa quite as often as A lady lamented the smaller quantity of of limited means during the summer they did in times of peace, but on the sugar row put into cakes and bans. months, I found scores of German lady other hand what a shock the German They have no idea how ridiculous such prisoners and their children occupyity public
would
set if they only knew how
grievances sound to anyone coming from the best houses, at Government expense, oftea they still cross! When I wa-rum- land on the verge of hunger, if aut of but I learned that the old barracks in taoned to the Kommandantur in Berlin for the last time, the notorinus bully actual starvation. What I mean is that the Fort, were being remodelled and s German Dr. Braumüller (the militars: official with the conspinpation of food in Germany soon as they were ready would i has now been reduced to a point below
occupied by these whom all the British civilians in Berlin, which it cannot go without disa-ter to
lady prisonerada incident that interned or at large, must des) who public health. received me with smiles and affability, The traffic in the London streets, too, cenrred not long ago is worthy of informed me that it was absolutely out is a surprise to me. I find them pulsing insertion. It was arme German big-day of the question that I could get any with life compared with corresponding and the German flag was hoisted in the farther than Holland. Communication thoroughfares in Lerlin. The Leipziger between Holland and England has ab and Friedrich Strassen are still, it is true, compound of one of the ladies in whose solutely consent on account of the sub-fairly seimated but in the rest of the house the day was to be celebrated Some soldiers noticed this and reported marine blockade," he said. ∙ife case shore at an English city a baby could wander about at the matter to the authorities. The
port, great risk
life and limb Privsto to end bad, with our luggage pas carriages and motor cars have long since parties were interviewed and the flag through the Customs and undergo an diappeared from the streets, and the was promptly removed. "You must examination at the hands of the military riding trucks through the
"Indeed we are not *said an officer. ed what impression the city would make In the hot speil last month the
we're the bononzed guests of King disgusting at best, became teinted into
"Why don't you keep your George was the indignant reply the bargai Meat
eat on ice, Frau Schule complained Facts are stubborn things," and I customer. Ico ? Where am I to get have no comments to offes in regard to Be/rom? If I order it they take Ave the treatment of German prisoners by clays before they send it The ica.com the Brital Government, except that I pany say they have no heads left and that their horses are all on the sick list: think it is a little different from the What is one to do. It is the same stoly treatment which British prisoners are receiving at the hands of the German everywhere.
no
As the train neared London I vinder- Tiergarten are untrodden alleys of the Fremdtaber you are prisoners of war,”
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