Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1912 — Many Soldiers in Munich. [ARTICLE]

Many Soldiers in Munich.

One cannot walk half a square in Munich without hearing the clank of a sword. It makes one think of two things, preparedness and taxes. The German officer and soldier is omnipresent. He looms up before you, In his close-fitting gray coat and high red collar, at the theater, the opera, the concert, the cafe —everywhere. He passes your window, perhaps in the morning at the head of a company of soldiers, all of them sieging a rousing marching song at a rapid cadence. And it is the singing soldier who interests one the most. His song is unlike anything we hear at home. One hundred of him marching down a hard granite street at sunrise, with the tramp of many feet marking the time of the song, will get anyone out of bed,. The song has a way of halting here and there for a brief interval. In the middle of a phrase it suddenly rests, while three or four resounding steps ring out on the pavements. And then the 'Song goes on again until it dies away in the distance.