"WE HATE AMERICANS"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2754, 25 April 1916, Page 6

"WE HATE AMERICANS"

GERMANY'S REAL FEELING.

"We hate the Americans and everything that comes from America." This is a phrase which Mr. Gustav C. Roeder, a special correspondent of the New York "World," says lie heard over and *ver again during his recent tour through Germany. "And what appears to be worse/' says Mr. Boeder, "they actually mean every word they say. There are majii wli% go so far as openly to declare that they despise our people. "The most outspoken American haters are the women of Germany. They seem to feel much more .the awful hardships which the world war has brought upon them. One woman said to me, 'Wait until we have licked England and Japan begins an attack on America; we won't do a thing'to the United States then.' They openly declare that they pray for the defeat of President Wilson at the coming election; they say that he is greatly responsible for all the misery in the Fatherland and for the frightful loss of lives among the German soldiers, because he did "not direct that arms and ammunition should not be furnished to the Allies. 'It is simpl.v awful how voti Americans are murdering our- good sons,' said Madame Corelli, one of Germany's foremost vocal teachers. 'You are a band of murderers, who are looking after .nothing! except what money you can make out of this awful war.' "An American travelling in Germany to-day is subject to all kinds of abuse. It is no use to romplain about it either, because "the police would nover declare in favour of the complainant in such cases. It is absolutely foolish -'for an American to travel in Germanv now unless he is able to speak the German language in such a manner that the average German is unable to detect, that he is meeting an -American. _ And this hatred against' Americans is all the more' pronounced in the families who have had to go into mourning because their 'relatives have been killed -in battle. They insist that if the United States lind not sold arms and ammunition to the Allies, the war would have been over lone ago. 'All Americans are murderers! They oucht all to be hanged!' Germans have been heard to say many, many times.

"Wherever yon find people in railway carriages, the conversation rrenevally leads to affairs connected with the war, and you invariably hear them denounce America. . Those living in the country are even more bitter towards Americans than are those who make their homed in the big o'ties."