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WITH THE GERMANS IN EWITZERLAND
SWISS KINDNESS.
BY LOEB NORTHCLIFFE
French Switzerland is more fervently. and more vociferoualy pro Ally than AFA some of the Allied countries themselves. German Switzerland is sentimentally pro- German, but, as I have said, is striving to be fair. But Switzerland as a whole
pro-
last, and all the Switzerland I saw ditth, but I gathered that, notwithstanding some misapprehen signs there is a general feeling of relief
19
8th ANTVE OI Italian:
the knowledge that the completion of the defences on the Italian side of the frontier has diminished any temptation which Germany may have felt to violate Swiss neutrality in that direction. Swit zerland is naturally afraid of Germany and knows her well enough to understand that no sentimental consideration would protect Swiss neutrality, did a definito military advantage scem obtainable, Every step taken by France or Italy to deprive the Germans m advance of such advantage, therefore enhances, the security of the Swiss.
German Switzerland, though by no means hostile towards individual Brilons or indeed, towards the Empire, is completely Gerate ---In Zürich the English traveller finds himself cheek by jowl with our chief enciny, for the Reichsdeutsch population of Zurich is large. The
These Imperial Germans are not as a rule, offence, and are considerably more civil tote English than they were before the war,
The artindo of the Gorman Swiss var, naturally, anti Ally at first, it is becom ing less and less hostile, and in some ways, positively appreciative **These same good people of Zürich, who strike the British visitor as being so German, besieged the railway station to welcome the passing British prisoners on tacir way to hospitable internment. At some places barriers were crected to keep back the crowds who assembled in thousands mere ly to see the trains pass in the middle of the night and to cheer the newcomers. At Zürich the police were powerless, andized," I said to a young bank manager the enthusiasm for the wounded. British was delirious. These manifestations of Swiss good-heartedness have quite of literated from the minds of British csi dents the memony of the rough handling to which some were subjected at the be ginning of the war. Even those who, like The Times correspondent, were arrested and kept in custody for various periods, warmly recognize the friendliness Swiss people
TIIN HIDDLE OF VERDUK.
The
Au fond des choses, I believe it is the chempionship of the cause of little nations by England in the past and by the Allies in the present that has most affected the attitude of Switzerland Tho war hos chastaned her and has caused her to realize her comparative helplessness.
You are becoming absolutely German
who was changing some money for me.
Not at all," he replied. We admire. Gormary, but her rul, would be too rigid for ns free Republicans. We are grateful to England for her protection of small nations, but we fear Russia. We have not. orgotten Russia's visit of hundred years ago.
THE MAN FROM FRANKFURT,
His was a very different tone from that of 4. Gerina, straight from Frankfurt, with th Frankfurter Zeitung “in his band, member of the race which has made Frankfurt famous. He was LI elderly man, and opened the conversation
THE
WAR CHARITIES.
OUR
DAY"
THURSDAY, 19TH OCTOBER.
will be devoted all over the Empire to collecting funds for
THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
AND
ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM
IN AID OF THE WOUNDED.
LADY MAY'S ROSE FUND
20,000 roses have been given, and will be sold throughout the day by numerous ladies and school children.
Subscriptions to the Rose Fund will also be gladly received at any time before the day by Lady May at Government House, who will send a rose with the acknowledgment.
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The German-Swiss, I think, are puzzled about the wat, and especially about Verdun. On the bookstalls you hnd side by-side with more modest collections of The Times and of the Continental Edi- tion of the Daily Mail, great piles of the fairly respectable English by asking Frankfurter Beitung, the lossische Sci- if I came from England. He proceeded fung, the Neue Ferie Preese, and of all to show me that he knew nothing what- the chef German and Austrian news ever about the war, WAS papers. These same German and Aus I should have expected this attitudo trian journals and their German-Swiss from an ordinary German, but here was contemporaries gave great prominence to Jew, a member of one of the most in- the Kaiser's famous February dispatch,telligent races ofthe world, a rae that in which he stated that his brave Bran has been given quick powers of insight, denburgers had stormed the fortress of infere, and deduction. Yet be was Doumont, and suggested that Douau convinced that Germany had been basely. mont was a real fortress commanding the attacked, that the English Navy was ruined little city on the Mense. As I paralysed, that London was almost in pointed out in a message telegraphed to tuins, that England was on her last lega The Times from Verdun carly in March, financially and on the eve of a social re- and Dounumont is a fort only in name. Six volution, that Hindenburg was cunningly months have now clapsed, and the Ger drawing Brusiloff and the Russians on to man Swiss see that all the military might their duom. of their kinsmen has beer withour avail. Nor was the man without knowledge of The French Swiss newspapers, in good England He had been there twice--in Fleet street style, are." rubbing it in." London once and once in the Isle of They reprint the February headlines of Wight He was especially loud in his the German newspapers and passages front an eminent German military critic lamentations over our futile attempt to who wrote: Yerdan is at its last gasp starve the women and children in Ger
many ** but had nothing to any when I Even as I write our have to inter out how Bismarck had treated probably quartered in its houses. "The only reply from Germany is the monotai. Paris in 1870. He was also particularly YARN and outworn suggestion that the rgy that the Gais should be making
duction of Verdun ·IS Taking its
Swins were as bad as the Americans, I It should be borne in mind that the explained that sentral countries had. business connections and family ties often done this kind of thing and that tween Germany and Gerhinn Switzerland are nearly as close ne those between Eng 1ards and Scotland. Yet some of the Ger man-Swiss newspapers are fair and give both sides a hearing. This is the more
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remarkable, since German propaganda by
cinematograph, advertise newspaper, ment, private letter, business threat and secret agente Germany hears when this , or that citizen of German Switzerland has expressed unorthodox views. Within a few hours the culprit receives a private lotter carefully controverting his opiniona
which, by the way, soon to be very fully
the Swiss by the way, were making alu minum for the German Zeppelins, in whose futura potentialities the old gentle man had infinite belief. He was especial ly eloquent over the condition of German finance and the relatively good position of the mark to Switzerland. I asked him if he ever read the English communiqués, given the German Press. He replied that he did, but they were all lies. Ver du, of course, was going all right. Ger- many, he admitted, was suffering from lack of several kinds of food and raw material. He confessed that he was glad GERMAN INFLUENCES,
of the opportunity of gelling a few days in such a land of plenty as that in which Gertaan methods of working upon neutrals have often been analysed, but he was travelling. He thought the war think the most effective of them ure still would last at least till Christing, at news-twisting and rapidity of publics which time France would have collapsed tion. In the train between Zürich api and England would be asking to be allow- Berue one bull-necked Hun of the comed to go home, to use his own words. merei traveller type read, too loudly to Germany would not be ungenerous. "T be polite, a German report of the most am not an arnexatiouist," he added. recent North Sea scrap, not a word It will be enough if we retain Antwerp about which had arrived from London, and some control over the manufacturing As before, the idea of our losses was districts of Franca and Belgium, with allowed to remain in the German, Aus freedom of the seas, and big compensa trian, and neutral mind long enough to tion for all treatment of the German
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natter added
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THE NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE. ----
Another objcet of the German prope
The Swiss are better informed than this gande is to give the impression that They know more of the true position and affairs in Germany, are going on as usual, hear constantly of the crosscurrents in Throughout Switzerland the great Ger man steamship advertisements appear as though the Atlantic were still open. The Hamburg-Amerika offices in the various towns look as if nothing bad changed The Balkan Zag (Balkan Express) has flaring advertisements and time-tables posted up on the walls of stations show ing its route Berlin-Budapest-Sofia Konstantinopel. I say one of them pur posely placed beside a modest announce ment of the Great Western Railway the ronte for England's most historic sites and Cathedral Cities"
FRENCH COUNTER-EFFORTS. There are some faint efforts at British propaganda. They might be greatly im proved upon and intensified. Our in the street may ask why we should
man
Germany Swiss workmen have recently returned from Germany in considerable numbers. They prefer the lower wages and the full meals of Helvetin to the high pay and low diet uf Prussia. They havo ward of the peace feelers constantly thrown out, not only by the German Im perial Government, but by some of the Governments of the Federal States. But they have not, and cannot have, a clear idea of the determination that animates all the Allies, and their very neutrality clouds their perception of the full menu ing of the war-ince
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