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March 14, 1940.

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WARTIME in BERLIN SLEEPY CITY

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, ment, and fish they are now the Anheuser-Busch millions recently allotting is just what the Reich in 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 years." to ride in trams and buses, but that their estate has been almost taken over, In addition to having their atables and

I HAVE been rather Interested in the outhouses used for storage of military equip ment and grain they had received 42 refugees one of the propaganda in view of Hiller's statement in Mein Kampf that Germany

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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 rooms, which are still allowed for their littling and under-estimating the British. private use.

But those in charge of the propaganda are the some 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 as month the butter ration will be increased something of an Eton scholar with a high- from about 234 to nearly 4oz., although the pitched voice who does his fighting with an margarine allotment will be reduced in the umbrella between cups of ten. same propertion.

Chamberlain is portrayed as an ossifed Puritan with vulture-like tendencles who in * སྐ

calculating in a cold-blooded manner on how to kill the greatest number of German women Berlin, October 8. EVERY cinana now runs a short before and children. Churchill is always a monster each performance, showing interior views of and llar wilo is in the pay of capitalists.

Hore-Bellsha, who is spelled "Horeb Germany'a warehouses, with endless rows of Elisha" in the Angriff, is a scheming Jew In- hams, wursts, tinned goods, burrels of butter, tent on destroying the Aryan race, and Eden etc. The audiences always inugh and even and Duff Cooper are portrayed us lesser de applaud, but I believe the reaction is ironical. viis in the hierarchy of hell.

We are told day after day how happy we are, that we are not worried about the war,

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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 most remarkable case of bridge which unites Strasbourg with evacuation under the shadow of the op- Kchi.

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posing forces on the western front is One must pass severn) barbed-wire en- that of the great city of Strasbourg, tanglements and show convincing creden- which to-day has the appearance of a tals to 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, Is France's most advanced eastern outpost. sandbags, and the invariable barbed wire, Only members of the police and of such essential services as water, gas, electricity. French frontier is that both the passenger The 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, ara now scattered

ali over France. 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 Perigueux, 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 as and find it crowded with customers, about tloning 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,

with the infinitely delicate

What lends a special character to Cathedral,

There was a forlorn aspect about the the city is the complete order, the masonry of its single superb spire; the more absence of the slightest sign of destruc- precious stained glass had been removed and tlon or looting.

there was a general 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 dificult and an eerie experience to find one's ornaments of far-off days, ita quite modern way, back to the station from the restaurant- department stores and blocks of residentini cute after dark,

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city's newspaper had moved magician and requiring a new touch of Bordeaux, as 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,

that we all feel entirely secure, that we have sufficient of everything, that our general

Berlin, November 3. spirit could not be more light-hearted or I NEVER go into a restaurant nowadays 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: "Boiled potatoes

flats, as the enchanted city of some wicked will be served free if you want then." The are completely unconcerned.

Mourning for lost suns or husbands is implication is, "We know this is a hell of a aternly discouraged, which is perhaps a good meal, but if you are still hungry, all up on thing, because the Germania are accustomed the potatoes."

to take their grief seriously and to drape 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 Jack of anything outstanding to command the boots of Germany were destroyed.

German boots, the heaviest, erudest, and interest.

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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 architecture in Strasbourg almost all speak the POLICEMEN, workers, waitresses

of the German town of Kehl.

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

Along the Rhine are the advanced posts Alsatian patois, a German dialect; there about the possibility of reparations for the the country, and a pair of iron-shod boots

of Germany's Westwall, or Siegfried Line. is evidently no suspicion of the loyalty damage done than about the increased size change the mildest spirit into a square-jawed

So Strasbourg is not only within easy range of the Alsatians and no desire to remove of the Reich, I don't know anyone who goose-stepper.

of air attack, but is exposed to something them from the frontier, except ny a The first tales of woo are coming in from thinks that Poland was worth the price it is

far more destructive, artillery bombard- the sweet little 18- and 19-year-old girls probably going to cost.

ment. This is why, alone among the large measure of general civilian security. The system of almost enslaving 500,000 who were sent out to help the farmers' wives

cities of France, it has been thoroughly eneeting place of French and German culture.

Strasbourg, like Alsace In general, is Polish prisoners la

The only being resented. pitch manure and milk the cows. also Labour offices have been set up in a few dis- means of escape is marriage, and what with evacuated. tricts, and advertisements have appeared in most of the young men at war even that is popers announcing that applications for Polish dimculi. prisoners will be accepted and dealt with.

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Berlin, October 24.

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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LIFE goes on here after a fashion.

+ CONSTANT yawning in the Press con- ferences has become a matter of course," and on discussing the matter we discovered that we are all tired most of the time and that an though the young people were told on Sunday astonishing amount of me is being lost just by Goebbels that they are enthusiastic over in sleeping.

I scarcely believe any German Whereas seven hours was for the war, erly ample, we are now sleeping eight and would contraedict me when I say they are even nine hours and sill feeling tired, most decidedly not enthusiastle. They regard Applying our scientific minds to the pheno- it as something that lins to be gone through menon, we came to the conclusion that it is with, but not one of them would have chosen it the best way of putting in the next few the food, or, rather, lack of it.

Furloughs are granted to soldiers who de- years.

The shops still display a few pure silk clare their intention of getting married, and it seems that a rush business is going on at dresses and dressing-gowns. It is explained that a virile nation does not wear silk, and the register offices.

The men Agure 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 better,

I was soundly berated by a cop recently

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 ranks of those who are about to serve the when I began to strike matches in a high When I Fatherland by increasing the population, wind to try to find a door bell. The

in some of the settlements is that pointed out to him that I was under the root slogan no man shall go off to the wars until he knows of the entrance and the English could not he

going

to be a father.

possibly see my match, he said he was not The courts are clamping down on petty thinking of the English, but I was wasting crimes committed in the dark, and some of wood.

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the sentences are rather astounding when one I heard дл Interesting considers that the penalty for murdering one's story from wife may be two years in the pen.

a friend who visited her brother in

law establishing the death penalty for hospital here. She came out of taking advantage of the into the almost completely persona convicted. black-outs to snatch pocket-books or commit dark hall and groped her hold-ups has been passed. A Hanover court way to the lift.

At that mo-

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The young officer, Rouget de Lisic, wrote the Immortal "Marseillaise" here, at a time when France was the centre of re-

against the old world of feudalism.

But the German guns have not ronred. The German airplanes, while they occasion- ally fly over the city to an accompaniment volutionary ferment in Europe, rislog up of anti-aircraft fire, have dropped no bombs.

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

Taken away from France after the Franco. and let live" has prevailed.

after the World War; and there was an extensive names of modern

This is most strikingly exemplified in process of though in Strasbourg, as In

prewar

the smoke that is pouring out of factories German origin, on both sides of the Rhino. The Germana Metz, the, chief town of Lorraine, the railway are making cellulose, The French are station and other public buildings are con-

the heavy

German making steel. Each side knows that if it structed starts to shell the other's plant its own will architectural style. Boon be made unworkable by bursting the French citizens of Strasbourg when the There was tremendous enthusiasm among French armies entered the elly after the

shells.

The same mutual tolerance prevalls as Armistice. 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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has just sentenced three boys of 17, 18 and As she was about to ring 21 for whacking a woman shop clerk on the for it, two gigantic forms hend and robbing her of 160 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. off, because the law makes no distinction for ment the lift arrived at the closing $1,495 buyers. Other business youth. Had they robbed her by daylight, the floor, the door opened, and reported was spread over a repri

the market sentative list, sentence would have been a few months in who should step out but prison.

A considerable amount of talk is heard, My friend then noticed In particularly from London, about the Im- the light from the lift that posalbility of the Reich being able to hold black uniformed forms were 'out lo a long war, but I am inclined to dis- parked at every corner and

along the corridor. agree.

Adolf.

The talk here about the mountainous TC- When Adolf had passed, serves is also bunk, but by peeling down to she was released-and told to

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