A GERMAN TRICK
One of the most, curious illnatrations of German attempts to' send lettors to England to influence our feelings 'is the following Some time before the war -a young Frenchman, learing English, was hoarding; with a lady in Bradford. He was called to ■ the war, and before going promised to write occasionally to the lady's daughter. He sent a letter from Lorraine describing German brutality, and the girl replied, part of her letter being: I dare not write vhat I wish the Germans, but that they will have to pay dearly for the evil' they have done the Cossacks get to Berlin is my belief. She heard no more until she received . by letter, with the abovo sentence specially lined in blue pencil, from Stuttgart, with the. following covering letter:— Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, 22.X,14. Cannstattef str, 18. My "dear lady,"—with that I send, you a letter' belonging U> you as I suppose. A german soldier, ,a friend of mine, sent it to me. -Ho found, it on. the field of battle, in the cold, stiff lingers of a french corporal. The dead hero laid at the road from Vitry en Artois to Vincy, Dp. Pas de Calais, in franco. The "german barbarian" took the letter carefully away in oVdea- to send it to me, beging I may send it to you, and it is mo, another "german bavarian," who tries to give the letter back to you through the "red cross." Meanwhile the ''Cossacks" are still far away from Berlin; I guess the Germans are nearer to Paris. Oberregierimgsrat C. Schmuker. Deutsche Friedcngesellschaft Sekre■tariat, Stuttgart. ' The signature (the original has been submitted to the "Daily Mail") is that of a councillor, and the address 'that of the German Peace Society. Accompanying was. a postcard of Christ on the battMeld, issued by the German Women's Peace Society, with a quotation explaining that Germany is fighting for women,, honour, aud true rcligioji, This letter arrived on November 3, and on that very day the young Frenchman, now a corporal, wrote to the girl from the battlefield, saying that he was well and all wa6 going on' all right. Probably the girl's letter was ' found in some abandoned baggage and j then used by the German Peace Society I to create a false impression.—"Daily Mail."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2353, 8 January 1915, Page 6
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383A GERMAN TRICK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2353, 8 January 1915, Page 6
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