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Here is the second instalment of letters written from inside Germany by an American journalist, Mr. William D. Bayles. These letters (originally written to personal friends rather than for publication) provide an authoritative, complete, and uncensored commentary on conditions in war-time Germany.
Berlin, October 3. about reserves of everything, but the amount I WAS talking with the heiress of of butter, bread, meat, and fish they are now the Anheuser-Busch millions recently produce, and I believe that rather than give allotting is just what the "Reich is able to and she told me they had not only lost in they will live on that amount for several all their cars and horses and are obliged years. to ride in trams and buses, but that their estate has been almost taken over.
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Berlin, October 28.
In addition to having their stables and ** authouses used for storage of military equip tone of the propaganda in view of Hitler's I HAVE been rather interested in the ment and grain they had received 12 refugees from the Western zone for quartering, and statement in Mein Kampf that Germany have had to give up all except one or two would never again make the mistake of be- rooms, which are still allowed for their ttling and under-estimating the British. private use.
But those in charge of the propaganda are The biggest bit of sensational news to-day again making the same old mistake, and the the announcement that beginning next general tendency is to regard the Tommy as month the butter ration will be increased something of an Eton scholar with It high- from about 23% to nearly 40%, although the pitched voice who does his fighting with an margarine allotment will be reduced in the umbrella between cups of tea. some proportion.
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Chamberlain Is portrayed as па osaifled Puritan with
vulture-like tendencies who Is. calculating in a cold-blooded manner on how to kill the greatest number of German women and children. Churchill is always a monster EVERY clnemu now runs a short before and line who is in the pay of capitalists, each performance, showing interior views of
Berlin, October 8.
Germany's warehouses, with endless rows of Elisha" in the Angriff, is a scheming Jew in- Hore-Bellsho, who is spelled "Horeb hams, wursts, tinned goods, barrels of butter, tent on destroying the Aryan race, and Eden etc. The audiences always laugh and even and Duff Cooper ure portrayed us lesser de- applaud, but I believe the reaction la frontent. vils in the hierarchy of hell.
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Berlin, November 3.
We are told day after day how happy we are, that we are not worried about the wat, that we all feel entirely secure, that we have sufficient of everything that aur general spirit could not be more light-hearted or I NEVER go into a restourant nowadays joyful, that while the French and British are without being amused at the pathetle note at slowly succumbing to fear in their cellars we the bottom of every menu: "Boiled potatoes are completely unconcerned.
will be served free If you want them." The
Mourning for lost sons or husbands is implication is. "We know this is a hell of a sternly discouraged, which is perhaps a good meal, but if you are still hungry, fill up on thing, because the Germans are accustomed the potatoes,""
to take their grief seriously and to drupe We were discussing uniforms the other themselves from head to foot in heavy black night, and came to the conclusion that a big vells for months after a funeral.
step towards the recovery of common sense
Spirit is deteriorating in the country for could be made it by some miracle all the Tack of anything outstanding to command the boots of Germany were destroyed. interest.
German boots, the heaviest, crudest, and
The people are not impressed by the fact loudest in the world, seem to symbolise the that we walked over Poland, and talk more domineering, crushing, ruthless character of about the possibility of reparations for the the country, and a pair of iron-shod boots damage done than about the Increased size change the mildest spirit into a square-jawed of the Reich. I don't know anyone who goose-stepper. thinks that Poland was worth the price it is The first tales of we are coming in from probably going to cost.
the sweet little 18 and 19-years-old girls The system of almost enslaving 500,000 who were sent out to help the farmers' wives Polish prisoners is also being "resented, pitch manure and milk the cows. The only Labour offers have been set up in a few dis- ments of escape is marriage, and what with tricts, and advertisements have appeared in most of the young men at war even that is papers announcing that applications for Polish difficult, prisoners will be ngcepted_and_dealt_with,
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Berlin, October 24.
CONSTANT yawning in the Press con-
ferences has become a matter of course, and
on discussing the matter we discovered that
The general' result is that the sweet little things are wild for matrimony and are throw- ̈ ing themselves at anything in trousers.
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Berlin, November 8. LIFE goes on here after a fashion. Al- we are all tired most of the time and that an though the young people were told on Sunday astonishing amount of time is being lost just by Goebbels that they are enthusiastic over in. sleeping. Whereas seven hours was for the war, I scarcely belleve any German merly ample, we are now sleeping eight and would contraedict me when I say they arg even nine hours and still feeling tired, most decidedly not enthusiastic. They regard
Applying our scientiße minds to the pheno- it as something that has to be gone through menon, we come to the conclusion that it is with, but not one of them would have chosen the food, or, rather, lack of it.
it as the best way of pulling in the next few
Furloughs are granted to soldiers who de- years. clare their intention of getting married, and The shops still display a few pure slik It seems that a rush business is going ont dresses and dressing-gowns. It is explained the register offices.
that a virile nation does not wear slik, and The men figure that it will make a nice the sooner the degenerates buy up the last week-end and that the future is uncertain in silk and wear it out the belter. any case, while the girls see the possibility The crying need seems to be for women's
of putting a coveted "Frau" in front of their stockings. names and perhaps of Joining the honoured I was soundly berated by a cop recently ranks of those who are about to serve the when I began to strike matches in a high Fatherland by increasing the population. wind to try to find a door bell. When I The slogan in some of the settlements is that pointed out to him that I was under the root no man shall go off to the wars until he knows of the entrance and the English could not he is going to be a father.
possibly see my match, he said he was not The courts are clamping down on petty thinking of the Engilsh, but I was wasting crimes committed in the dark, and some of wood.
Kn interesting
from
the sentences are rather astounding when one I heard considers that the penalty for murdering one's wite may be two years in the pen.
story
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frlend who
visited her brother in Lite
A law establishing the death penalty for hospital here. She came out persons convicted of taking advantage of the into the almost completely black-outs to match pocket-books or commit dark hall and groped her hold-ups has been passed. A Hanover court way to the lift.
has just sentenced three boys of 17, 10 and As she was about to ring
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Strasbourg, France's beautiful border city to-day has 2,000 population in place of its normal 200,000. A record feat was accomplished by the French in handling civil evacuation.
THE
mosi remarkable caso of bridge which unites Strasbourg with evacuation under the shadow of the op- Kehl. posing forces on the western front is One must pass several barbed-wire en- that of the great city of Strasbourg, tanglements and show convincing creden- which to-day has the appearance of a fials fo sentries before reaching the neigh- deserted city with only 2,000 of its bourhood of the bridge, 200,000 inhabitants remaining to walk Here one finds a sign: "Military terri. around its deserted streets.
tory. Access forbidden." But a genial
The reason for the evacuation is that French major conducted me about the de- the old city, on the left bank of the Rhine, fences, consisting largely of barricades, ia France's most advanced castern outpost, sandbags, and the invariable barbed wire. Only members of the police and of such
The essential services as water, gas, electricity. French frontier is that both the passenger. chief defence at this point of the and a few workers in a local metal factory bridge and the railway bridge, which is near remain.
it, will be blown up at the first sign of a Ger-
The others, compulsorily evacuated in man attack." the first days of the war, are now scattered
all over Franco, Some have found shelter other bridges which span the Rhine at other The French have already blown up three with friends and relatives in Alsatian vil points. lages behind the Maginot Line. Many others have moved to Périgueux, a town in the one restaurant-cafe which is now func- It was a curious experience to walk into southwestern France.
One's footsteps sound curiously loud 5 and find it crewded with customers, about tioning in Strasbourg, near the Place Kleber, one walks through completely deserted half of them in uniform, after roaming about streets that were once alive with people and the empty streets of the city. humming with traffic.
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There was a forlorn aspect about What lends a special character to the city is the complete order, the masonry of its single superb spire; the more Cathedral, with the infinitely delicate alence of the slightest sign of destruc precious stained glass had been removed and tion or looking.
there was a generol atmosphere of packing One could imagine Strasbourg, with Its up and moving. magnificent thirteenth century Cathedral,
one of the finest specimens of Gothic archi- in deserted Strasbourg; and it was both a Nowhere is the blackout so complete us tecture, its many quaint buildings and difficult and an eerie experience to and one's ornaments of far-off dava, its quite modern way back to the station from the restaurant- department stores and blocks of residential cafe after dark.
flats, as the enchanted city of some wicked The city's newspaper had moved to magician and requiring a new touch of Bordeaux, us so many of the former in- magic to awaken it to life.
habitants are now living in this southwestern part of France. A small edition, however is published in the Alsatian town of Colmar and is available for the few remaining inhabitants of Strasbourg.
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THE wicked magician, in this case, of course, was the war.
Across the Rhine, about half a mile in breadth, one can see the solid architetture POLICEMEN, workers, waitresses of the German town of Kehl.
in Strasbourg almost all speak the Along the Rhine are the advanced posts Alsatian patois, a German dialect; there of Germany's Westwall, or Siegfried Line. is evidently no suspicion of the loyalty So Strasbourg is not only within easy range of the Alsatians and no desire to remove of air attack, but is exposed to something them from the frontier, except as a far more destructive, artillery bombard- ment. This is why, alone among the large measure of general civilian security. cities of France, it has been thoroughly meeting place of French and Germans culture.
Strasbourg, like Alsace In general, is a evacuated.
But the German guns have not roared. The German airplanes, while they occasion- ally fly over the city to an accompaniment- of anti-aircraft fire, have dropped no bomba.
The young officer, Bonget de Lisle, wrote the immortal "Marseliinise" here, at a time when France-was the centre-of- re- volutionary ferment in Europe, rising up against the old world of feudalism.
After all French heavy artillery
At the same time many of the street names could be just as destructive in its effect and much of the architecture suggest the on Karlsruhe and other German towns strong German element in the city's history, along the Rhine. So a policy of "live Prussian War, Strasbourg was recovered after Taken away from France after the Franco- and let live" has prevailed.
the World War; and there was an extensive This is most strikingly exemplified in process
of rechanging names of modern
the smoke that is pouring out of factories German origin, although in Strasbourg, an in on both sides of the Rhine. The Germans Metz, the chief town of Lorraine, the railway are making cellulose, The French are station and other pubile buildings are con-
in the heavy making steel. Each side knows that if it structed
picwar German starts to shell the other's plant its own will architectural style. soon be made unworkable by bursting the French citizens of Strasbourg when the There was tremendous enthusiasm among shells.
The same mutual tolerance prevails as Armistice
French armies entered the city after the
regarda amall boat traffic on each side of
And all its residents will rejoice again the Rhine, although no large vessels are when their present period of exlie as refugees navigating the famous river and the normal- comes to an end and they can return to the ly busy port of Strasbourg is entirely in homes which have been preserved, up to the active.
present time, with the most meticulous care.
As a young French officer said:
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ONE gets the sense of being on the "front" when one comes up to the
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21 for whacking a woman shop clerk on the for it, two gigantic forms summary issued yesterday says: head and robbing her of 150 marks she was stepped out of the gloom taking to the bank,
and firmly took hold of each a fairly extensive scale up to $1,500, All three are to have their heads chopped of her arms. At that mo closing $1,495 buyers. Other business off, because the law makes no distinction for ment the lift arrived at the youth. Had they rubbed her by daylight, the floor, the door opened, and reported was spread over a repr
sentative ist, the market closing sentence would have been a few months in who should step out but
stency. prison.
Adolf. A considerable amount of talk is heard, My friend then noticed in particularly from London, about the im- the light from the lift that possibility of the Reich being able to hold black uniformed forms were out la a long zar, but I am Inclined to dis- parked at overy corner and
along the corridor.
agree.
The talk here about the mountainous re- When Adolf had passed, serves is also bunk, but by peeling down to slu, was released and told to the very core and pulling in the belt to the beat it. I learned afte - last hole, the country is able to exlat on what words that he was visiting It has,
he son of Winifred Wagner, Nearly every foreign product is already who was seriously wounded extinct, which seems to belle the boasts in Poland,
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