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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 allotting is just what the Relch is able to produce, and I believe that rather than give 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 yours. to ride in trams and buses, but that their estate has been almost taken over. Be
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Berlin, October 28,
In addition to having their stables and HAVE been rather interested in the outhouser used for storage of military equip tone of the propaganda In view of Hitler's ment and grain they had received 42 refugees statement in Mein Kampf that Germany from the Western zone for quartering, and would never again make the mistake of be- have had to give up all except one or two littling and under-estimating the British. rooma, which are still allowed for their
But those in charge of the propaganda are private use.
the same old mistake, and the The biggest bit of sensational news to-day again making was the announcement that beginning next general tendency is to regard the Tommy no month the butter ration will be increased something of an Eton scholar with a high- from about 2% to nearly foz., although the pitched voice who does his fighting with an margarine allotment will be reduced in the umbrella between cups of tea. same proportion.
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Chamberlain is portrayed as an ossified Puritan with vulture-like tendencies who is calculating in a cold-blooded manner on how to kill the greatest number of German women Berlin, October 8.
and children. Churchill is always a monster EVERY cinema now runs a short before and llar who is in the pay of capitalists. each performance, showing Interior vlows of
Hore-Bellshe,
spelled "Horeb Germany's warehouses, with endless rows of Elisha" in the Angrif, is a scheming Jew in- hams, wursta, tinned goods, barrels of butter. tent on destroying the Aryan race, and Eden etc. The audiences always laugh and even and Duff Cooper are portrayed as lesser de- applaud, but I believe the reaction Is ironical.
We are told day after day how happy we vils in the hierarchy of hell.
arc.
that we are not worried about the war,
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Berlin, November 3.
that we all fecl entirely secure, that we have sufficient of everything, that our general spirit could not be
I NEVER go into a restaurant nowadays Bight-hearted or more Joyful, that while the French and British are without being amused at the pathetic note at slowly succumbing to fear in their cellars we the bottom of every menu: "Bolled potatoes are completely unconcerned.
will be served free if you want thern." The or husbands is implication is, "We know this is a hell of a Mourning for lost song sterly discouraged, which is perhaps a good meal, but if you are still hungry, fill up on thing, because the Germans are accustomed the potatoes,"
We were discussing uniforms the other to take their grief seriously and to drape themselves from head to foot in heavy black night, and came to the conclusion that a big veile for months after a funeral.
step towards the recovery of common sense Spirit is deteriorating in the country for could be made if by some miracle all the Inck 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 then 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 woe 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 offices have been set up in a few dis- means 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 accepted and dealt with.
-Berlin, October 24. CONSTANT yawning in the Press con- ferences has beconte a matter of
and course,
The general result is that the sweet little things are wild for matrimony and are throw- ing themselves at anything_in_trousers,.......
Berlin, November 8,
on discussing the matter we discovered that 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 Renгcely believe any German in sleeping. Whereas seven hours was for the war,
merly ample, we are now sleeping eight and would contraedict me when I say they are even nine hours and still feeling tired. most decidedly not enthusiastic. They regard Applying our selentine minds to the pheno- it as something that has to be gone through menon, we came 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 putting 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 silk it seems that a rush business is going on at dresses and dressing-gowns. It is explained the register offices.
that a virile nation does not wear silk, 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 silic and wear it out the better. 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.
and perhaps of joining the honoured
names
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
is going to be a father.
possibly see my match, he said he was not
he
The courts are clamping down on petty thinking of the English, but I was wasting crimes committed in the dark, and some of wood, the sentences are rather astounding when one
heard an interesting
a friend who visited her brother in the
considers that the penalty for murdering one's story from wife may be two years in the pen.
A law establishing the death penalty for hospital here. She came out persons convicted of taking advantage of the into the almost completely snatch pocket-books or commit durk hall and groped her black-outs to hold-ups has been passed, A Hanover court way to the lift has just sentenced three boys of 17, 18 and As she was about to ring 21 for whacking a woman shop cleric on the for it, two gigantic forms head and robbing her of 160 marks she was stepped out of the gloom taking to the bank.
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 most remarkable chse 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-wira en- that of the great city of Strasbourg, tanglements and show convincing creden- which to-day has the appearance of a tials to sentries before reaching the neigh- deserted city with only 2,000 of its bourhood of the bridge.
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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, is France's most advanced eastern outpost, sandbags, and the invariable barbed wire. Only members of the police and of such The chief defence at this point of the essential services as water, gna, electricity. French frontier is that both the passenger 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-
one
The others, compulsorily evacuated in man attack. the first days of the war, are now scattered The French have already blown up three all over France. Some have found shelter other bridges which span the Rhine at other with friends and relatives in Alsatian vil points. lages behind the Maginot Line. Many others have moved to Perigueux, a town in the one restaurant-cafe which is now func- It was a curious experience to walk into southwestern France.
tioning in Strasbourg, near the Place Kleber, One's footsteps sound curiously loud as and find it crowded with customers, about 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.
There was a forlorn aspect about the What lends a special character to Cathedral, with the infinitely deliente the city is the complete order, the masonry of its single superb spire; the more absence of the slightest sign of destruc precious sinined glass had been removed and tion or looting,
there was a general atmosphere of packing One could imagine Strasbourg, with its up and moving. magnificent thirteenth century Cathedral, Nowhere is the blackout so complete as one of the finest specimens of Gothic archie in deserted Strasbourg; and it was both a tecture, its many quaint buildings and difficult and an ecric experience to find one'n ornaments of far-off days, its quite modern way back to the station from the restaurant- department stores and blocks of residential cafe after dark.
The flats, as the enchanted city of some wicked
city's newspaper had moved magician and requiring a new touch of Bordeaux, as so many of the former In- habitants are now living in this southwestern magle to awaken it to life.
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.
THE wicked magician, in this case, of course, was the war.
Across the Rhine, about half a milo in breadth, one can see the solid architecture of the German town of Kohl.
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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 ofcer, Rouget de Lisle, wrote the immortal "Marselliafse” here, ai a time when Franco was the centre of re- volutionary ferment in Europe, rising up against the old world of feudalian...................... 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 clement in the city's history.
Taken away from France after the Franco- along the Rhine. So a polley of "live Prussian War, Strasbourg was recovered after and let live" has prevailed.
After all French heavy artillery
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, na in on both sides of the Rhine. The Germans Metz, the chief town of Lorraine, the rallway are making cellulose. The French are station and other public buildings are con- In the heavy prewar German making steel. Each side knows that if it structed soon be made unworkable by bursting the French citizens of Strasbourg when the starts to shell the other's plant its own will architectural style,
There was tremendous enthusiasm among shells.
French armies entered the city after the Armistice, And
all its residents will rejoice again when their present period of exile as refugees comes to an end and they can return to the homes which have been preserved, up to the present time, with the most meticulous caro,
A young French officer sald:"
The same mutual tolerance.prevails us regards small boat traffic on each side of the Rhine, although no large vessels are navigating the famous river and the normal ly busy port of Strasbourg is entirely in active.
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ONE gets the sense of being on the "front" when one comes up to the
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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 wer out in a long war, but I am inclined to dis parked at every 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 she was released and told to
afte the very core and pulling in the belt to the bent it. I learned Inst hole, the country is able to exist on what wards that he was visiting he son of Winifred Wagner, Lft hins.
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