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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11TH, 1917.
TEN MONTHS IN GERMANY, hearts were fight and German tongues.
were full of brag.
HOW THE POOR LIVE.
TOO MUCH STEW.
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CHAPTER IXVIL,
[BY THOMAS CURTIN-] The poor of Berlin live in the north and cast of the city, I have seen Berlin's Enat-end change from the hilarious joy of the first year of the war to an ever- deepening gloom. I have studied condi- tiona there long and carefully, but I feel that I can do no better than describe my last Saturday in that interesting quarter of the German capital.
She A girl of 30 entered the room. hated the war because she had to rush every day at noon from school to the People's Kitchen to fetch the family stew. In the afternoon she had to look after the younger children while her mother stood in the long lines before the shops where food was sold. The family were growing tired stew day after day. They missed the good German sausage ani volunited amour of bread and butter.
FRANCIS · JOSEPH'S LIFE TRAGEDY.
PERSONAL SKETCH BY HIS NEPHEW
BY LEOPOLD WOELFLING..
Nephew of the late Emperor. He was formerly the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. He wrote the following necount of his uncle in December, 1913, and gave it The Daily Mail on the condition that it should not be printed before the Emperor's death.
We can hardly realise that the Head of the House of Habsburg, the Emperor- Francis Joseph I., is dead. For our gen cration, our fathers and our grand- fathers, the name of Austria conjured up the picture of the dead Emperor who, ever since the revolutionary year 1848, now so far behind us, has enjoyed our attachment.
The mother looked in on her way to the She was tired. street, basket under arm. and was dalled by the daily routine of trying to get food. She talked bitterly about the war, but though she blamed the Agrarians. for not doing their part to believe the food situation, she expressed ms animosity against her own Govern meat. The father had been through Lodz Hindenburg's two frontal assaults on Warsaw, where he had seen the slopes covered with forests of crosses marking the German dead and his words were But it was in that year that the eigh- bitter, too, when he talked of his lost teen-year-old boy ascended the throne, comrades. And then, the depressing surrounded by the tumult of minda 21 feeling of returning from an army pawild effervescence, the din of war, and suing the mirage of victory to find his hampered by the jealously preserved family and every other family struggling etiquette of the Halsburg Court. in the meshes of that terrible and relent advisers the young Emperor had anti- leas blockade!
quated officials who had gone grey in It never had occurred to him that his years of rigid observance of regulationgi Government might be in the least, who was just stepping from the responsible for the misery of his country. schoolroom, had to relinquish youthful Like the great bulk of the German people day-dreams, for relentless Fate had he is firmly convinced that the Father planted him on the throne, where, as fand has been fighting a war of defence though in a glass box, he was exposed from the very beginning "To think to the gaze of all. that one nation, England, is responsibl for all this suffering was the way that he put it. He
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In the two previous articles the uncon- scious courage of our citizen soldiers has been discussed and their invariable babit. of regarding everything that the war brings them as a perfectly ordinary and even jolly affair illustrated by ono or two concrete examples, But there are beneath the humorous unconcern in- herent in the British character several undercurrents of feeling in these men which are of real assistance to them.
In the first place, in their civilian lives they net with many problems for the
Late in the morning I left the Stettiner most part of ways and means; their Bahnhof in the north and walked onst minds now are entirely art free of these, ward through the Invalidestrasse. There for themselves at ay rate. Whatever they was practically no meat in the butchers' have is brought to them; it comes by the shops, just the customary lines of empty transport or the prst, or from their quar-hooks. A long queue farther on attracted lecaster sergeants; and in consequence my attention and I crossed the street to fife though it may be dangerous, ardasee what the people were waiting for. A ons, and full of discomfort, has at least glance at the dark red carcases in the the outstanding merit of supreme sim-shop told me that this was horsideat day plicity. In the trenches if it-whatever for that district. it may be-linsn't come with the rations,
The number of vacant shops of all it isn't coming at all; in billets there is descriptions was increasing. The small the additional possibility of getting it shoemaker and tailor were closing up at a canteen or little shop, but the con- The centralization of food distribution is tants of these are not satiable, and there greater here than in the better-class is usually as little ground for uncer districts, with the result that many small tainty as there is cash to experd; it de shopkeepers have been driven out of finitely either is or is not forthcoming, business. In parts of Lothringerstrasse Then, again, the vital needs of men are 2 quarter of the shops were vacant, in seen to be few indeed compared to the other parts one-half. The bakers' shops variety of possessions with which ho are nearly empty except-at morning and encumbers himself in peace--and he finds evening. In fact, after my long sojourg
The Emperor Francis Joseph made it in blockaded German I fill and myself lus est do without needs even on ocCL
a rule to fear everybody and investigate sin And morcover, a higher authority staring in amazement at your well-stocked
When I once more resumed my walk everything in person. Then after an ex- taan,will and the power of the purse shop windows of every description.
saw the lines of people waiting for food haustive discussion with his Ministers I reached the in every street, Every time I turned he would make known his decision tersely steps in; an officer has his pack, and that Shortly before noon
Vichund-Schluchthaf niythical 351b.; a man has just what be
(the corner great black masses dominated the and clearly. Every nationality in the Through a great scene. I paused at a line of more than Empire, and especially that one which
SOME KNOWN FACTS. can carry, and far the greater part of slaughter-houses). that is fixed for him. He can, if he gateway poured women and children, 300 people waiting for potatoes. Tea by reason of its historical tradition
There are many things that are still feels so inclined, think ad libitum. "Ain each carrying some sort of a tin or dish yards away not a suund could be heard. believed itself to be entitled to have its unknown about rheumatism. Most treat- The very silence added to the depression, desires considered first, was in perpetuaments of the disorder are far from satis- I or am I not going to get a blighty" full of stew. Some of the children were But as a matter of fact, po one is encarcely beyond the age of babyhood. With faces anxious and drawn they stood conflict with the Crown.
He displayed amiability towards the factory, and though doctors realize this, inclined except & moments when there The children's faces showed unmistakable tour abreast, and moved with the order- Seems every likelihood of an immediate traces of toil. The poor little things liness of soldiers. Not a sign of distar party leaders and on innumerable oceanobody is more painfully aware of it keision; and beyond that speculation drudged hard enough in peace time, and bance, and not a policeman in sight.sions was able to achieve the success de than the sufferers themselves.
in war they are merely part of the big Some women were mending socks; a few, sired. There is no lack of the stubborn tished, the acute pains aro liable to return tendency to rheumatisin once estab- with every spell of bad weather, show- ing that the poison is still in the blood, awaiting favourable conditions to become active and cause trouble.
thought is narrowed down to the wo main topica--food and shelter.
MEN AND OFFICERS.
The dependency of the men upon their dwn officer, while it is an immense and unwitting tribute to that officer, is at alonės su absolute as to be embarrassing, and in these men, who have so many of the high intelligent and a retrospect of civilian responsibility, it is surpris 198 But the British soldier, now as well as old, is always surprising; his actions, whatever they are, are rarely the expected-which is one of the reasons why, he is anch a grievance to his enemies. The attitude comes in all probability from the fact that in making the great surrender of their liberties to becoms
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PEOPLE'S KITCHENS.
The diminishing supply of cattle and pigs for killing bas afforded 3.1 opportunity to convert a section of the laughter-houses into one of the great People's Kitchens. Few eat there, how- ever. Just before noon and at noon the people come in thousands for the stew. It costs 40 pfennigs (about 5d.) & quart, and a quart is supposed to be enough for a meal and a half.
ORDERLINESS OF WAITING CROWDS.
standing on the edge of the closely packed column, pushed baby carriages no they crawled hour after hour' toward the narrow entrance of the shop,
I have been in the great Schlachthof ||docile and obedient henceforth, if neces kitchen, where I have caten the stew, and sary until they drop-mako no mistake of
that.
have nothing but praise for the work being done. This kitchen, like the others I have visited, is the last word in neat-
His day's work was devoted to his people, or, correctly, to his peoples. ..
TERSE DECISIONS.
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and the wrong-headest in the world, but the Emperor Francis Joseph showed him- self a match for them. He would formu- late his wishes with unsuspected energy, Every line was like the rest. The and it often happened that he would absence of policemen is particularly note-express himself to such persons in unex worthy, since they had to be present in pectedly harsh and severe terms,
just the early days- year ago when the ignore them utterly, batter lines came into being. Drastic The Emperor's day used to begin, even measures were taken when the impatient in the height of summer, with the first women rioted. Those days are over. The grey signs of dawn. He habitually de Government has taught the people aprived himself of priceless sleep, and medy for rheumatism, as the blood so leason. They will wait hour after hour, when the majority of his millions of sub enriched is able to overcome or throw off the poisons of the disorder. Lumbago is, jects lay peacefully in their beds was up of course, rheumatism in the muscles of and at work,
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In fact, the war is
of Departments arrived. I write not a patate was to be bought in
ous forms. At the first twinge; obtain a foeling that they must be told everything modern type. This in some weird way all their own increasing the demand for labour-saving the Wost-cad of Berlin, where the better ences, at which anybody who had a res (remember that substitutes are useless).
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Crown Prince for something, not quite well-known restaurant in the Potsdamer dear, which he is supposed to have Platz, which has a contract with the accomplished at Verdun. Therefore they municipal authorities. Little was wasted
can wait. for potatoes until the mors in Germany before the war: nothing, critical East-end is supplied. absolutely nothing, is wasted today.
for them, well, they are not going to deprive him of his job, and they let him willingly, whole-heartedly they let him and if he does it well they will follow him any whore,
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The faces of the soldiers were like the rest of the faces I saw that day. There was not the least trace of the cheerful, confident expression of the days when all believed that the Kaiser's armies would hammer their way to an early peace in during the first year and a quarter of the three months, as people used to say Verdun had been promised them war. de a certain key to early peace, and Admiral Scheer was doified as the inmortal who tore loose the British clutch
VAGLE GRUMBLINO,
The Emperor's mode of life was ex- tremely simple. When-as, of course, he often had to he gave large dinner par- ties, a plate of soup, a piece of boiled heef (Rindfleisch- a dish that always had to figure on the menu, even at great State banquets), and a glass of wine suficed for his requirement Bat he was over- joyed when his guesta did justice to his table and often sent back the Court lackeys with the dishes to modest guests who had not ventured to help themselves. to dishes which they had never before.
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Saxony." The peasant, completely taken aback, turned to the Emperor with the question: "And who, pray, are you?” The Emperor laughed heartily and answered? I am the Emperor of Aus tria" Thereupon the peasant, muster- ing the three with great solemnity, an nounced with a perfectly straight face: That's all right. 1 ain the Emperor of China!
At one time the Emperor was a pas- sicunte smoker. He preferred the long Virginia cigar (an Austrian speciality) to all others. A cigar, extremely strong, was specially made for him, and he often gave one they were the best of their kind to his guests. In the later years of his life his doctors begged him to smoke a milder cigar, and with a heavy heart he followed their advice.
Early in the evening the Emperor had Ia auturan the Emperor went regularly- light meat and his apartments wore on a short visit to Godollo, his Han- mally enveloped in darkness as the cur-garian hunting-box in the neighbourhood tain was rising on the second act in the of the ill omened forest of Bakony, where he hunted stag and wild boar. The theatres of Vienna
whole of the vast domain was carefully- preserved and contained splendid stage."
EMPEROR'S FAMILY LIVE
To some extent constrained, as King of Hungary, to spend a certain time in each year in the Hungarian capital, the Emperor profited by his visit to Gödöllő to make a stay in the Royal Palace of Budapest, where ho had his own Hun- sarian Court officials.
int this Army every man has come of his own will, come in the spirit of one saying. Here I am, now turn me into soldier and use me.' That is one
I went farther eastward through the fundamental factor, but there is another,
Au at the central slaughter-house, so in Kottbuser district to the Kottbuser Ufer and though they never speak and very other districts the poor we served
on the canal, along which a couple of probably seldom think of it, it goes thousands with standard stew. The hundred people waited in na orderly deeper still. There has never ben immense Alexander Market has been column without any guardian another man of the new Armics yet-if there had cleared of its booths and tables and serves evidence of the success of the drastic teen ho must have become known as a more than 30,000 people. One director measures of July and early August, when Trissing gos-who doubted cither the of this work told me that the Berlin the demonstrations against the war were success of our arms or the justice of our authorities would supply nearly 400,000 nipped in the bad. These people were cause. As to the first, even in the darkest people before the end of the years waiting for the free advertisement sheets days, it was always all right; it's your The occasional soldier met in a streets from the gaudily painted yellow Ullstein turn now; but just wait till we get looked shabbier in the by surround-newspaper building across the square started; and now that conviction has the Fart. The man uniform, They had to wait by the side of the canal ixxen made a truth visible to all the which once revoked unstinted praise, is because a quene of several hundred world. The second is more elming
ring and to-day wig to lack of people waiting for potatoes wound slowly cannot be learnt by direct inquiry,
material was in a Bocial before Ulstein's to the underground any officer or man why he became foderatie district but, the main potato-shop next door. soldier, and he will hedge; he joined uniform who wore home one" WED "because all his pals were joining," probably good Social Denson Face
because he sort of felt it was the thing since it is nainrious that the regular I had not heard laugh or seen any to du, or any other half-truth which variety are denied this privilege. body amile all day, and when darkness comes into his head. Tell him ho joined;
fell on the weary city I went to a cheap to save the honour of England or the
little beer-room where several "bad," but really harmless, Social Democrats used freedom of civilization; and, if on Beer, he will probably say, "Oh, well, I sup
to gather. Among them was the inevit able one who had been to America, and The Emperor's family life was of the pose that came in," and change the con-
I had become acquainted with them solid, bourgeois order. Though indiscri versation; if a man, he will think, even
They talked in the nexminately friendly to all members of his if he does not say, Wau are you got
strain of their type, that they might as family he always showed a certain re through him. ting at Neither officers nor men have
well be under the British or French as ser. While he was accustomed to em the least use for heroics, and laugh at
under their own Government.
ploy towards every member of the Ima the sentimentalities often imputed to
Their voices were low- a rare event singular, he himself was always address- perial Family the familiar second person them by those who imagine but do not
where Germans gather at table. They ell, even by his daughters, with the title live their thoughts and words, But, From the German throat But Verdun did not plot, they merely grumbled of Majesty. all the same, every one of them has at and Jatland faded in succeding months incessantly. The end of the war had the back of his consciousness the know-before the terrible first-hand evidence that definitely sunk below their horizon, and
The only recreation he allowed himself Jedge of high ideal as he has also the constant diminution of food made peace, not merely steps to peace, was what kinds of huntsmanship and abhorred the was shooting, He was skilled in all knowledge of his undertaking; as an life a struggle day after day and week they longed for. There was the customary modern fashion of ruthless slaughter, too, he sustained grievous blows. officer said with a laugh on being told aftw week. The news from Roumania, cursing of the Agrarians and the expresHe brought down his quarry by stalking 1867 his brother, the Emperor Maximi that as a Regular ho should be prepared though good, would bring them no cheersions of resolve to have a new order of or by lying in wait.
lian of Mexico, was shot by order of for anything, "Well, you knew what until it was followed by phaty of food.
freedom after the war, expressions which Up to the end of the nineties King General Juarez, the Mexican Republican you were in för, and I didn't."
I believe will never be realized unless Albert of Saxony, grandfather of the leader. In 1889 his only son, the Crown Every member of the New Armies bas
Germany is compelled to accept peace by present King, and the Grand Duke of Prince Rudolf, died in tragic circum-
· offered himself as a willing sacrifice, and In the vicinity of the Schlesischer superior forces from without,
Tuscany, the father of the writer, were stances, and in 1899 the noble Empress for no material gain either to himsel" or Bahnhof decurred & trifling incident
I left the dreary room for the dreary the Emperor's regular guests for the Elizabeth his Consort, fell, under the his country and his conscience is at which gave me an opportunity to see the streets, and turned towards the centre capercailzie shooting in the spring. On dagger of an Italian Anarchist.
is a world of war there is to inside of a poor German home that day. West-and of Berlin, where the cafe one of these excursions they had a most The Emperor and Empress took the every man an inner peace; he has no A soldier in faded field-grey, home on lights were bright and tinkling music amusing adventure
The Emperor, the death of the Crown Prince most dread- further choice-le has only to obey. No leave, asked me for a match. During the made restricted menu-cards easier to bear. King of Saxony, and my father met at fully to heart.
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Shortly after the reasoning which leaves out of account conversation which followed I said that
Suddenly the oppressive feeling of the the end of the day's shooting before the catastrophe the writer was in Vienna the great moral force driving our citizen I was an American, but to my surprise East-end was dispelled by the strains of carriages had arrived to take them back and was asked to a family dinner at the
he did not make the usual German reply military musio drawing nearer in a street to the hunting-box. soldiers along can fully explain their that the war would have been ended long near by. I hurried towards it, and saw appeared, driven by, a peasant who had never faded. All the other members of Presently a trap palace. The memory of that day has spirit, in the early days of their brain ago if it had not been for American a band marching at the head of two aug it was obvious; now it is a habit ammunition. On the contrary, he showed companies of wounded soldiers, their pulled up and, not recognising the three
a local reputation as a wit. The peasant that party are now dead. which cases and uplifts, never socks or an interest in my country, as he had a bandages showing white under the bright strangers in their rough shooting clothes, heard, but fail at every turn.
brother there, and finally he asked me if street lights of Berlin.
offered them a lift. These min of stools and counter, of I would step into his hores and explain The men were returning to their has streets and council achowis continue to a few things to him with the aid of a pital off the Prenzlauer Allée from a
“THE EMPEROR OF CHINË” take the days as they find them in the map.
day's outing on the River Spree. Scores They accepted the offer and took their Rame spirit of humorous acceptance Though I was in a district of poverty of followers swelled to hundreds. The places in the trap Prescatly the pet throughout. They have not joined the the room I entered was commendably troubles of the day were forgotten. Eyes ant grew curions as to the identity of Army under any delusions as to glory, clean. An old picture of William I. hung brightened as the crowd kept step with his rests and said. "I wonder who you Fadently wrung the hand of each of his but simply to serve their country as best on one wall; opposite was Bismarck the martial music. A roll of drum, a sentimen are! My father spoke up they can; and without suy feeling that Over the low door was an unframed lure of brass, and the crowd, scattered and said. I am the Grand Duke of guests and his eyes were seen to be filled they are splendid fellows without any Hindenburg completed the collection grand crescendo, sang Deutschland üher his head with a cunning grin.
nortrait of
Faiser," while voices at first. and then swelling in a
Tuscany
y whereat the neusant warged with tears. It goes without saying that cociousness of courage, they are worthy Wooden hearts, on which were printed Alles. Tc-morzow they would complain Albert added: "And I am the King of Bible, and within a quarter of an hour: Kinz. everyone took his leave as rapidly as pre. of their new name of British soldiers. the Times.
hames Liege Maubeuge. and again of food shortage, but to-night they
of entering the Emperor's sitting room Antwerp, recalled the days when German would dream of victory-Famer
ferntinued at foot of next Column.) after dinner everybody had left
peace.
AT EAKT-ENU HOME.
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throughout his long reign.
Fate dealt the Emperor heavy blows The dis- astrous campaigns against Sardinia and France in 1959, and against Prussia în
misery to hir subjects. 1866, were in themselves a source of great But personally, In
meal.
self and did not touch & morsel of food,
Not a word was spoken throughout the
The Express pried softly to her
Ro-that all the others abstained from eating, too. Hardly had the dessert boen served than the Empress ross hastily and with a brief nod hurried from the room, her handkerchief pressed to her lips. Against All precedent the Emperor
2-The hope have a nerve soothing value, The mult not only has food-valus, but in, af all feeds, one of the most quickly and easily turned by digestion into mourishment.
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