A WOMAN'S TOUR IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3037, 26 March 1917, Page 2

A WOMAN'S TOUR IN GERMANY

STARVING RUSSIANS.. Miss Madeleine Doty, in the "Nation," gives an account of her experienceß. on a journalistio tour', through toiiiany. Near Mannheim tho party visited a'paper and artificial silk tiu> tory. Describing the place she says:— ' There aro several hundred women; formerly,. except for office work, there |,woro,none. Tho women perform heavy manual labour. A' gang* of them wero aiding Russian jirisonoru to unload treetrunks. They were handling logs five times as big as themselves. Many of these women were mothers. . TheyJworo bloomers, und had thoir feob" swathed in rags. Thoir'pay-was from two to three- marks- (50.- to':7s- cents), a. day: The Russians prisoners looked .utterly wretched. They' wero thin and pale." , Thiiy had great difficulty in keeping up with',tho -women. I commented on their appearance. "Yds," I was told, "they navo'a hard'time. Thoir'country doesn't eend them' any money.- ! Wβ try to give them, a mark-.(24-c6nts) a day, but it'is. haM to live on that." As we. passed, oilt of sight of .the' prisoners I;heard- a ! German-foreman angrily order more speedy The German womonand Russian prisonersworked sido .bj, side Without hostility. Thero is no "conversation, T saw a woman seoretly assist, a sickly Russian.'. It recalled'the stories: of German feminists. They wore soothing with rago at tho imprisonment, of certain women \ The German. isoTEior.fi in Belgium, Polfindj <and clsowhoro are encouraged- to.' seok female society. Children born ifroni such unions are considored German, and therefore dosired. ; But.a German woman must not be friendly with a. foreign, prisoner. Even a mild flirtation or words of sympathy bring a prison sentence.' -If she should'havo a. child it' .would, not be Gorinan. • Such. injustices dp ■ not go ■uniioticed. '■■■ ■ .■■■:; ■..'.-. "■• - ' ' At'. Stuttgart .they visited the -Bosch magneto, works,- now employed in ,turni ing out munitions fot , tfoarmy.' One of the incidents ,oi their inspection is related as follows: '.'."As-. we: went, through, tho. 'factory.: a. -group of one-armed men workers. .They, had, the steel arms ■with the iron hooke, th 6 ■week-day arms. 'Wo like, , ,'.said Herr Bosch, , 'to take ■wounded 'men. It niakoß thorn feel they are etill men u they can work. ■ •,-..■.'; ,-.. : . "'How much-'.dp,they..earu?A.l inquired. .Herr. Bosch stepped over to an energetic'cripple, and- 'repeated my question. I was close at his heels, and •I hoard the aiiswei , , 'Nothiflg ■ at-all.! Nothing at. , alii Yet.this man..worked eight hours-a day. an<l handled a big machine. He had ft) jive "on-tho Government pension."-. .-' / ~..

Mrs. M'Giil and Mrs.' Bacchus,: of Seatoun, will have charge of the - Bed Cross Shop on Wednesday,. and; will have a. good supply of hom6-made "cakes, sweets, etc. ' . ■'

• Miss E. Baird (Masterfcon) is visiSng her sister, Mrs. Moore, in Wahganui. Dr. and Miss Leatliam, who have been visiting the Nelson district, returned; to New Plymouth last week.

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