SPY FEVER IN BERLIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 5

SPY FEVER IN BERLIN.

200 DENUNCIATIONS ' A WEEKS 10,000 UNBURIED BODIES. "".^

Tli? Warsaw Courier prints a most ift 1 '. •.■resting diary kept by a Pole in Be<«s ]''■> in which mention is made of tlie. , j ridicule poured on the Austrians on cunt of tin ir defeats.. Apparently up ' effort is made by tire stop this. There exists a large v coflfM>?n t'on of anecdotes, says the Pole, fun at the Aiistrians. He also stress on the spy fever in Berlin, are r.aid to be found everywhere'and in', : i all classes of society. One police officer ;? received two hundred denunciations JbMJ one week. '.-'u

The story is told of a foreigner a club ventured to dissent from the cral' opinion, hotly expressed, that +hb,\ Belgians were cunning bandits, filthy \ dogs, and savage ruffians, and suggest?.. i'j ud that Andreas Hofer, whom all Oer- - mans honored, would not have' act<!d "* otherwise than the Belgians in defence .■ of their country. Immediately tbcrpVit arose an "incredible tumult.'" Next day ~ i! the foreigner found lie was being shad*'.'; owed by the police, who alao searched*liis rooms and caused him endless tin- j

noyance. " * ">m Another incident mentioned at a dinner party given by an manufacturer. The author of the tcry play <which was successfully duced in several foreign canitalß," sauTl-'*! that perhaps it was a good thing the, Germans were not doing so well M''£i was expected, since at the their hats were, too . small for heads., The guests protested, and ap«-'"j| pealed to their host, who* rcpliedj -,! < j|ll am a foreigner and cannot be more cf German patriot than a German Poet.*,fJS ■Some of the guests indignantly left the "sJS table and the house. ■''"'%£ THE LATEST APOLOGY. -~"4| The latest Austran apology is caleu- '''% ktcd to make Berlin more sarcastic '-?j than ever. It is stated officially that- '"A General Potiorek was Gefcatcd in ScV- ' *' bia entirely owing to the weather. It n -J apparently hoped that Archduke Eugeu, ,"j who has superseded the disgraced gen.-. { M cral as commander against the Serbians, 1 ; !"5] will only fight on fine days. ' ~ The state of feeling in Vienna can ihe M judged from the extravagant hopes 'fi which were founded on Count von Bu- i| low's mission to Rome. Austria is iteg-' 'ty perately anxious that Italy should either 'M help her former allies or take the ative of suggesting tne possibility 6l *Mty peace. _ •%-fii

There is no sentiment of this kind fo ; . be found in Germany. Although tW men, from 39 to 45 years' of age, have no riiflea, they are entity* lastieally drilling with sticks. Through-, out the land loud expressions of aoafidence in ultimate, victory are to be. heard. Those who are not rnnfident'ianiBilent.

The building of warships and airships ■'"•>;£ goes on steadily. Every fresh cxolui* 1 of their ships or aeroplanes against land is hailed with hectic jov as a forcVAj <ast of more to'conn. ' ■ ~m If the Germans at home could hft^s' l seen.the battlefield of Sekanov, in. Prussia strewn with 10,000 bodies whteh*'"* lay ■lznburicd for several days, tho\*f* might ask themselves what ■ they *mAi sacrificing 4-heir son*, husbands," a'n-l f *s brothers for. They might begin to ,nrim-V7 der if the Hohenzollern dynasty,'which '"? is always the enemy of self-govermnff '$ aspirations of the people, is worth so v J terrible a price. There is no possiliil-,** lty that, the war nan benefit anyone irf v 'i Gprmany except the Hohenaollerns anil i hangers-on. That field' of Sekanov is appalling indictment of the wickedness H and folly of the pretence that those whb"-' !, i direct nations' destinies aqt by Divine* '\ right. ' * , -,' .ji ° _-, ■_ ■ ■ ■-- 'n.tti.*;/i