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LONDON. July 7 (liy mall).—De
spite their four years of fighting, some
of the German prisoners of war still
are obsessed by the German idea of
conquering the world That unadul
terated ITussianism still exists In the
German ranks is the conclusion of one
British officer who has interviewed a
number of the German prisoners. One
of them he describes ns "an intelli
gent university man." The British of
ficer quotes their conversation as fol
lows :
"I do not wish to Insult you." said
the German, "but you English are
well intended fools We who govern
in Germany are not like you. We gov
ern the fools; the fools govern you."
“Your principles are sweeping." re
plied the Briton "To come'down to
practice, what have you to say about
the guilt of beginning the war?
"Guilt?" demanded the German;
"it was a glory. 1 claim it for Ger
many."
"That is hardly your official view ”
"The official view is for fools."
"But you believe in the Prussian
purpose behind all this?" asked the
British officer
"I do, as in nothing else," replied
the German “The Prussian purpose
is God. There is no other. Prussia
will rend the veil of the temple, but
she will destroy to create. Against
Prussian might the world as It exists
today will fall in ruins, but Prusst*
will build a better and more virile
wori'd in its place. Strength only wild
survive. The life of men is naturally
a tight The strongest in force and
cunning will live"
"It will be going back to the Flood."
said the Briton
"Prussia is the Flood "
"And when the old world is
drowned, virtue and all such weak
nesses will go with it?"
"The old virtue was womanish,”
said the prisoner. "The new virtue
is strength."
"In that blessed future will war
reign triumphant?"
“Life Is war—all of life that is
healthy Peace is only striving for
mastery with other weapons. That is
, the law of nature."
“So everyone will fight till everyone
is dead?"
"The weakest will go under. They
are the disease The stronger will
live; and after that the stronger and
stronger, till there is perfect health."
"Hut it may lie that Prussia will
keep a few slaves?"
"Certainly," said the German
"Those who care not to fight that they
may rule are in their nature slaves."
"1 had had enough of it," the of
ficer concluded. "It was nauseating
Hut the man was genuine in his be
liefs, and so obsessed by bis elemen
tary notion of virility that it was a
waste of time (o argue with him. His
conceptions were quite definite and
not a doubt assailed him. The hid
eous world of his vision seemed to
him a natural and a glorious world "
ALLIED SHIPS'PICK UP
MESSAGES SENT TD SUBS
LONDON. Aug. 2. Wireless oper-J
ators on American and other ships
crossing the Atlantic at night fre
quently "pick up" orders being sent
by the German admiralty to subma
rines at sea. The messages are in
code, of course, and the submarines
never acknowledge receipt of the or
ders. because if they did some war
ship of the enemy might get a clue
as to the location of one or more of
the underea boats
These messages are from Nauen.
a small town near Spandau. where
Germany has its great wireless sta
tion Electrical waves produced there
will reach some 6,000 miles
Nine towers are in use, the highest
being 850 feet. Lust year Nauen sent
to the outside world almost 5,000,000
words for the German government.
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WANTS WOMEN AS
RECONSTRUCTIONISTS
—
The medical department, United
States army, needs reconstruction
aids. The office of the surgeon gen
eral announces: “The work of re
construction aids is divided into two
sections—(1) those women who are
well trained in massage and the other
forms of physiotherapy, and (2) those
who are trained in simple handi
crafts" Foreign service pay Is $60,
home service pay $50 per month, and
quarters allowances
TEUTONS USE UNIFORMS
TO SWINDLE TOE PUBLIC
AMSTERDAM, Aug 2. An extraor
dinary instance of Teutonic servility
where uniforms are concerned has oc
curred at Essen. A party of three
armed individuals, two In soldiers’
and one In a policeman's uniform,
made a round of all the schools of
the town, representing themselves to
lie authorized to collect the children's
satchel They paid a trifle in each
case for the leather straps attached
to them and carried away their booty.
After a few days the whole affair was
discovered to be a swindle
“How it is laissible that this could
have been carried on for days with
out anyone having the courage to chal
lenge their authority remains one of
the mysteries of this war," says the
Rhenish Westphalian Gazette.
ROW MATERIAL IS RUSHED
PROM EAST TO SHIPYARDS
SEATTLE. Aug 1 —"To All Hail
road Men: I am going to a shipyard.
I’lease push me through.”
This notice painted on the side of
a big locomotive crane recently ar
riving here from the East for a local
shipyard tells the story of a new co
operative effort that stretches across
the continent to help yards keep up
the production of ships for the gov
ernment. General co-operation from
railroad officers and men. It la said
by the shipyard foreman, is having
a big effect in enabling the yards to
keep full crews busy
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