JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 6

JOTTINGS.

i The German People and the War, by Sir Frederick R. St. John.—"l beg to submit two extracts from a letter I received some three years ago from a friend in Switzerland: 'Germany only waits for a moment of great internal strife, in England in which • to strike.' 'I am on very firendly terms with the venerable leader of the German Socialists—Herr Bebei. When returning here from Berlin, a,month ago, he told me I could form no idea of the bitter animosity in Germany against England. He had never scon anything like it. Everything in Germany, he said, is shaping itself for a war with England.' I need scarcely add that I "at" once communicated they above to a person well qualified t/ make the best use of the information." '.' ' .

Th« experience of j-r-me in Germany after war was declared were far from enviable. Writing to a friend in Invercargill an English lady says:—"Miss G~ las got back from Berlin after wonderful adventures. She had to leave neari> all her luggage behind, as well as a diary she kept while staying in Germain. She said the Germans behaved we n . enough under the circumstances, but they are terrified of •letting anfboijj uvit a bridge somewhere near *'m froi'lier of Denmark,,, and they made all the passengers getrout of the trains there and find their way on foot as well' as they could across the frontier. The bridge is two miles across, and Miss G and the othirs 'bad to drag what luggage they had that distance through rough fit:! !?. When they arrived at Copenhagen th"ir feet were blistered and. bleeding. She says she will never forget the agony she went through."