Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 June 1919 — Page 13

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IfcoieUe Valley Official Beflects Opinion of His Countrymen On Future Eventi.

II NEW YORK, June 87.—"The league Itf nations will never stop wars. I am ft y«*r« old and my daya are therejfiwe numbered. But I expect to see when there is real war among states that now make up the al»8*|^ And I believe that one of the B*»t countries that will have a war on hands Is the very country that the leading hand in the drawing 9 of the league of nations, tout in ^)S» war we Germans will sit with ted arms and read the accounts in

This Is the'Uptntori of a German ot^fieial of the Moselle Valley, inter•ipfowed by a member of the American

Actny of occupation. This interview, along with a number of others from Oannans ifn the occupied area, was Obtained by Allen W. Porterfield late

April, and now haa appeared in an article in the New York Times. All the statements are official, the duty *f conducting the investigation, havta# been assigned Mr. Porterfield as a military order. He asked Germans in all walks of life what they thought of tbe peace treaty and the league of na- I Hons. These were the replies:

Treaty of Peace All Right* A saloonkeeper: 'The treaty of peace is all right. We SMcrved good hard blows. We were deteated and nothing else can be exKacted. The main thing for us now is to Start up, as soon as possible, businees relations with the outside world. If We can do that we will soon be on OBr fefet again." .-

A cobbler, who has had a son In the tftUted States for ten years and whose «*fe comes from Lorraine: *TPhey got just what they- deserved.''

A local judge: There is no telling how we were Officially deceived. For example, our physicians, appointed by the Prussian

^fcwrament, laid statistics before us •J^fcowlng that the health of the people ted risen to the most satisfactory point in our history. This they explained on the ground that w© were not overeating. Now that the war is over these same physicians are layw

Jag statistics before us showing the appalling death rate from under.nourlahment y **Ludendt3rfP tiTmsetf wa« deceived 1y the German admiralty. He had no

Idea how weak our U-boats were in ||ie face of the allies. "Idiot, at Our Headquarters.'* jj "wnen I see how strong America WOB in the war, and then reflect on tha reports that were placed in our hands as to the Impossibility of Amer. USk's participation, I am forced to believe that we must have had either. Children or idiots at our headquarters. "When the people discussed the U-boat war here, they were divided into two parties, for and against. Then Valentin (one of Germany's most famous U-boat commanders) came here when he left, we all believed in U-boats. His remarks are inexplicable to me now. "We have absolutely no power of resistance left. A famous physician said to me yesterday: 'I don't give a damn {da* 1st mlr gana wurscht) who n«s to constitute a pat*t of the army occupation or who takes Germany. Hottentots would be just as uninteresting to me as any other people. 1 .Jim, done and through."

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Real Traitors the Italian*

.. A captain In the German army (recently demobilized): "The thing that worries me most In the treaty of peace is that the Poles Should get something out of ^t. That our real enemies, the English, the French, etc., should he indemnified, that I understand. But that these Polish people should also receive a alioe, that beats me (dasaergert mlch ttnsagbar.)"

.. A local German official* "The real traitors in this war were the Italians. They owe an incalculable debt to Germany. They entered Into an allianoe with us, and then, when the time was ripe for them, they deserted us and went to the allies. Blacker treason is not recorded in his. lory. •If America had entered this •w&r rme ear earlier, American soldiers would have been mowed down like so much trass. We had food then. In 1918 we were hungry. It was hunger that defeated us. "Our yotmr ^generation? will -*4 ,t help to us In rebuilding the new Germany. We have many more children than the French. Then, too, half of the French population is tubercular. There is no instinctive hatred between the Germans and the French. It is a matter of economic rivalry and civic ambition and the feeling of revenge oh the part of the French since 1870-7L We do hate England. She saw that we had already out« Stripped her and she started this war, not because we invaded Belgium, but because of our prosperity,

"Rather Die Than Accept Terms." *3 When asked what "he thought of the £eace terms, a citizen of the Mosel failey replied: "We would much rather die than accept those terms. The allies even

Want our live stock.' Do they not realize that it tears at our heart strings to part with a faithful sheep or affable cow? Moreover, our present herds are already sadly depleted." i Less than ten minutes later we passed a flo-ek of about sixty venerable sheep and enough lambs to prove that all connubial duties had been •crupulously attended to. In reply to the remark that there were so many Children in this area, the German replied: "Oh, that's easy tney come of their own accord." (Ach Gott. das its leicht. Die kommen von selbst) If this be true, somebody remarked," the denial that the' hocfae are supermen needs revision.^

The same German who made the relaarlis about the league of nations laildl "If a vote were taken on the ma'ter, the Rhineland would go back '•taJEtance. alw»tti»t,mnaaireouay. -x^er?

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