GERMAN LOVERS’ TRAGEDY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 59, 9 March 1916, Page 2

GERMAN LOVERS’ TRAGEDY.

For cold-blooded brutality, it will be hard to parallel a story of German militarism which is vouched for, according to the Washington correspond ent of the London Morning Post, In people who have seen the docume; in the case. A year or so before the war a young German went to New York to improve his fortunes, leavii. at home the girl to whom he was < gaged. He did well ,ancl was looking forward to his marriage when war v. • gaged. He wrote to his fiancee that he fe'lt it to be his duty to enter t army. She wrote telling him to wait. Several letters passed between them, the man constantly saying that h ought to serve his country, and each letter from the girl becoming more spondent. She told him of the di. tress existing in Germany, of members of her own and of her lover’s family being killed, and of her fear that soon there, would be no men Deft of either family. Finally (concludes the narrator), she wrote begging him to let her come to America in order that they might marry, and again she told him of relatives and friends killed, and implored him to let her know his decision at once. Thus far the man read unsuspecting; then he noticed a postscript in another hand, which., in effect, ran as follows: "The writer of the above letter, the woman , hat this day been shot for treason for persuading her lover not to enlist. The recipient is to accept this as official notice of her death.' ;