HUNLAND HORRORS.

Northern Advocate, 2 October 1918, Page 1

HUNLAND HORRORS.

OMK CHOICE EXAMPLES

Domestic schrecklichkeit is beginning to worry our dear German brothers, though why it should is a little puzzling. The gentle German naving been taught to bo frightful abroad, it is hardly surprising that force of habit will assert itself when 'he gets home. That it is doing so is obvious from the "Berliner Tr.geblaU," which is raising a verbal riot about the number of burglaries and robberies in Berlin, which, according to this authority, average

more than 800 ;•; day, and the paper alleges that most or' then: are committed by deserters from the Army. The "8.Z," as the Berliners afi'ecJonately call the "Berliner Zeitung am Mittag," a small but influential midday journal, is quite excited over an increase in the number of policemen to the extent of 100. It says:

"We are going to be safer in Ber-

lin. Military patrols will carry out »aius on the criminal elements and street lighting will be increased. Quite a hundred additional policemen will be on duty in, the "streets at night. A hundred is indeed a very fine figure when it is a matter of eggs and sugar, but for the surveillance of Greater Berlin an increase of a hundred policemen is rather small. It js true that the entire police machinery is over-burdened, but the only consolation that can be drawn from this fact is that the military must intervene on a large scale, as isolated patrols are quite inadequate.

The High Command, which appears to be very interested in the matter, will place every night at the disposal of the President of Police a certain number —and not too small a number —of soldiers, thus obviating the possibility of ti policeman having to patrol alone. Unfortunately things have -now reached such a pass that an individual policeman is no longer sure of his own life. \n ,'ir..y ca.se, guerilla warfare in the treats oi Berlin must be suppressed at nil costs." THE NAUGHTY NORTH. Farther up north, the moral d: oravity cf the Germans a?).')C'.r.ir, t-: ba sad indeed, and the indictmeni brought against the inhabitants of the Fatherland by the "Kieler Zeitung" is truly alarming. According to this journal, which before the

war -was a staid, not to say stodgy organ, there is hardly a person ir Germany of hi-;h or low degree whr dees not deserve hanging to the •ie:ii-ost lamp post. They are all Rogues, thieves and murderer? steeped to the lips in crime of every sort. After a detailed and rather repulsive description of the preval-

ance in Germany of what the French call crimes passionelles, the "Keiler

ZeiLung" goes on to say:-—•

"Fraud, embezzlement, peculation and .deceit in all its forms, these unhappily are the characteristics. of German domestic life at the present day.

"Whoever considers this an exaggerated statement should address himself to the few decent,, upright men who are still left in Berlin or Hamburg, in the Rhine provinces, or Saxony, and who have bestowed some attention on this painful situation. The gravity of this state of affairs is further enhanced by the position held by the worst sinners. Among them we find state officials of every degree, functionaries of the court, and highly placed police officers —in fact, the very class of whose impeccability we were once so proud.

"Our returning victorious warriors will be confronted with a terrible disillusionment and our children will look back on these years as a time of the rankest barbarism, of unchecked criminality, and of utter absence of morals.