DANISH SYMPATHY WITH THE ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 7

DANISH SYMPATHY WITH THE ALLIES

A Danish gentleman who lives In Copenhagen, writing to an Englisn friend, says:— "It is a comfort to feel English hearts beating time to our own. It is sad indeed to think that we can offer nothing but our sympathy; but, then, wo have played our part .in tho past, and we have been mutilated by the enemy you are fighting. Yet, if we wish your arms to be victorious, it is not from thought of revenge; it is not because of the German oruelties (though they are abominable if half the reports are true); it is because German rule is a cancer in the body of Europe, because we cannot breathe in the German atmosphere. "Most of our soldiers are billeted on farmers; my son is quartered , in the house of a miller's widow, where, after the day's drilling, he may keep up his studios a little, while tho good old woman knits her stockings or dozes in her chair. ... I see that Eomo English papers havo misgivings as to the groat amount of maizo and benzine imported hero. They fear that we are supplying Germany with these articles. I do not think our Government would suffor any . such breach of neutrality, and_ as to benzine I know that the want of it is felt very had here. There are scarcely any motor-cars to be hired, the Government having seized a good deal of benzine and several cars for military purposes. . 'There are—l am sorry to say—some Gormanophils among us (some people i liiivo no fatherland but their purse, you know), but tho bulk of the nation 'have their sympathies on tho other side, and I do not think the Government would J ever dare «o against it."