"WE HATE THE AMERICANS."

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLII, Issue 12823, 15 April 1916, Page 3

"WE HATE THE AMERICANS."

"We hate the -Americans and everything that comes from America." This is a phrase which Mr Guetav C. Roeder, a special correspondent of the Xew York "World," 'says he heard over and over again during his recent tour through. Germany "And what appears to be worse," I say/ Mr Roeder, "they actually mean | every word they say. There are many who" go so far as openly to dedans that thev despise our people. "The most outspoken American haters are the women of Germany. They seem to feel much more the awful hardships whicl. the world war has brought upon them One woman said to me, 'Wait until we have licked England and Japan begins an attack on America: we won't do a thing to the United States then.' They openly declare that they pray for the defeat of President Wilson at the coining election ; they say tnat he ie greatly responsible for'all the-misery in the Fatherland and for the frightful loss of lives among the German soldiers, because he did. not direct-that Arms and ammunition should not be furnished to the Alliee. 'lt is simply awful how you Americans arc murdering, our good sons,' said Madame Coie.lli, one of Germany's foremost vocal teachers. "You are a band of murderers, who are looking after nothing except what money you can make out of _this awful war.'.

"An American travelling in Germany to-day is subject to all kinds, of abuse. It' is no" use to complain about it either, because the police would never declare in favoui of the complainant in such cases. It is : absolutely foolish for an American to travel in Germany now unless he is able to speak. the German language in e-uch a manner that the average German is unable to detect that he is, meeting, an American. And this hatred against Aneiicans is all the more pronounced in the families who have had to, go into mourning because their relatives have been killed in battle. They insist that if the United States had hot sold arms and ammunition to the Allies the war would have been over long ago. 'All Americans are murderers! They ought all to be hanged!' Germans have been heard to say many many times. "Wherever you find people in railway carriages the conversation generally leads to affairs connected with the war, and you invariably hear them 'denounce America. Thosf living in the country are even more bitter towards Americans than are those who make their homes in the big cities."