COLOGNE BEGINS TO LEARN LOSS IS HEAVY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 5

COLOGNE BEGINS TO LEARN LOSS IS HEAVY.

TRAINLOADS OF WOUNDED. \^ I . THE HAGUE.- At»ii_.S4 "■■■■'. '■•• Throughput the week all J^plogfls..had been dressed with flatgs on* accdlihib 'of "the 1 German \ ' victory^ 'l(st#teiis '^a special correspondent). , .Very little, is * known ■ there ■ of" &&^(jtMV^J^4BF ! o& ..the bulk of the population- f ally believes ' the repeated assurances' that Gertn^h casualties; are -flight..';/- The -local rievrfci . j)ape,rs explain tliat is partly; .due, to t(h« tact tliat the'peiThaniibpnibfl.iximeni ; TVva3 awnaliilat ing, a>pd pa rt;!y r to the ■' iriipidi ty of theh Oerittajiv artillery movement; Today, -'we a/rev further assured' thai 'the Bri^feily'aTjtillei'y has-been bravely sewed,, {.rut p^diy,haaidtedy. this being a further iga&onr' 'for .bur. lijtjht josses. ./Ho-wevei", !. ,^0; tr^ui&^f t^^ntiY-^eren. carriagefc eaich fcazhqj: through conveying wounded,- arid it i» beginning to he obtious; that the price of the offensive lias been^heayyj especially, .. as it is^ no^•'«fltei,aiJ!ly''a|linl^•ted tihiat there were severe losses ipeeriAiih sectors, i . : i: .. „;,; ./t-^jW- [ : " : " : On. Tuesday afternoon nre <Md bur jjr&fc 'e,\pe>rieiiice m (&16giie^^ pfi'/sic^iiali -attack ; fromr the air.. Oil. the previous ikScasion .the airmen dropped .no Ktonbs herd, /but 'da^^'-'OMUtiz.-.' '■■'■'&$ *Ke>tJife I ... was-'' in Golbghe — Hulheim, which, isVa." factory district on the other sid© of tnei " Rhine.. Standing :nV tli© "fetftiejet" ,'^fter. ,-. • warning signals had 'been given- from fibe factory hooters, 1 saw two aeroplane's \rhicli~ .^meoJie iSaid were British. They" came 1 towards Mttlheim, not oiiHhe Gpj- ; ogne side o i the river at aill , "&M dropped • honie; bombs on the suburb of ;Deut:z, \v.h!oh is really a continuation of Cologne east, of, ..the, Rihine,, ...At the tin^».it, was. imiiossible" to discover * tfhe <JaJtiiageV :t lSiiti I learned subsequently «tha%ith©y;bomibj|f :\ had partly WTecked the branch, factory- ' s - Qf.,the Baden, Aniline Dye Works^ kjUiftg fifteen people 7 and wounding-' ibout seventy^ ... . . ; . V X OPrdm J Beiit4 they turned' right-handed. • and fieivr away over, the suburb of Kalk, where, I belieVe, . they also; dropped ■ Tire i ! districts '.Where' J|bmfcs fell werfi shut off immediately,' ariid onie; could-nei-ther visit them, nor hiear^elJably vrh^t.' ■; h4cLh.a,ppen«d, though :![.. am 1 sure'at itois true alboiit the )d[y« works. ,We Jvfe&rd! d9«;n by the quays; that-vMannheim' find,, lAvdwigiiKa.fen liad. -iillso 'been'biymbi.r^e'^, ■"tmd! ; l>ha.t much greater damage! had bie«n donj&vtih?^ ■>n .Cologne. Several people . >$&•& fin^i. f or liavirig blinds, up itod lights 1 showing tihiat night; Since ihe aeroplaries didl. not actually come over Mulihejm.; there was less of ia -tifo&ra x . J was than, laist time, and ivork was not ' iriiterrupted) so long,- but it was Interest- . ing to listen to the workmen talking tliat evening. . ■ .:,: „.• '.'*.. „ ' ;;■•:. \ ■'::•' :: . 1 Oiiß'inan,' who came; IS gathered, ; from , a ( smmiition factqx^y i .•called' Carisw^ejr^e, oibserved : "As fat "as 1 care they oduM! ' 'bloivr tip the ;-,whole , blessed" town,-, ■It is a^-pity thej; . didn't -hit' the - mundtion Ifroi'ks. ftiey snjasned the: munition ; Mjctories,' perli-aps we' rt shoiild 'getpe^ce.a V> . little earlier."., ...„.,.. . . '. : i ..^ Such. expressions- . of ' ibbinion 1 are, i|i^iv- : ever. -jrai'e andi just now cauise'most people are st-il'l rather :'ca&k-k- --■ hQop.oy-er the victories, j i,,. *„ fi: •„*■'. V This week I have seen twoV^4d.;sightß. Fjrgt, a. lad! ot , appaa^nU^^o#, t 17 brought m /by frontier 'gjaaros^fpi 1 attempted desertion ; and, second, out m»" the, cou^try^ a woman .literally cut to pieces by aa engine tiphxle .- trying to ± cape from railway sentries. She J^g^* 1 been buying up a few pounds of potafc^as; % and the sentries \vaT)tes.(to seize' her, foi* ''hamster^flg," so she varied' to eaCap© aoross the^ijlracks. v ■ .■-.,; Th» f^pd, here shows: ho impipv<dmentt^ , and th'e exti^, food'.%i^vasabljjliitwjt3K>ut caiKllsi g^bs i dearer, jahd ; de^reiy \ '■'o3ae, 'fiiet? abaut Jfliilf i" p^nd. i of.; : p>)r^re > Yorjf;.fortnig)it ( , 9pst -aiboufr half a ■ oroiro^' \ ■'■^Beef ■■' one sometimies gets, three oumbes twice, a week, ? ,/a.nd the price 13 ajbout ,6d per y English ouijce. Eggs' oost r as muoh,aQ \ lOd each. Ooffee substitute costs from) 2s to 4s a pound. Heal btitter, when . . you can #et it on the sly, costs enyiihin^:^'' to 12s jM, a pound, and margarine.Si& ,' ! practically|\in<>bta.inable. To spread^ "an* bread one uses, syrup or apple and swede , 'janvv;-" .. ...; ■;..., y . ■.^ . a^. •*.'*" ;.:. There are no^shoetoaker^' reft^in the who'e of C?o!ogne, and boots .QQ&t up to flix poamds for a pair which 43ie war cost 12s. Dutch workmen who fcofne to,. Germany to work sell their • : boots for fi-oon. four to "five /pounds. ; > .-, The Dutch skilled workman who came to Cologne on "Monday and whom I knew • told me that he had two offers of £3 '-15s , withiin a .quarter „pf. an hour m. ,^ip srtreet. I jnyself "saw ia. fwell-dreMed ; '^iEnllemia« accompanied by a lady go. up -to a Dutchmarii m Cologne, point to (hfe •bocts, amdi a«k what , v hewoW^^^ for ' them. They went into a cafe and the •gentleman tried them on, but they were three, sizes too large. The.. Dutchman fcqld .'• me'afterwai'd ; ih»i v thjsV centienw^* 1 .wanted to ,buy them, despite their but that his wife wonld not let/ him. -He sold theni less than half an hourlateav., 'Adi these workmen bring over ecfftte- - thing to sell when they come to: work and! make a handsome profit. Dutch gintf for instance,, T wfiich ji§ ; sqmetiraies snuujgoiled ovei* an' 'tftttef' meaiJcirie i" bottkje, is so.d at Cplogpe, shopa. at ; JB3 v forA»> • quantity worth m Holland awiit a isoupie of shillings. ■ !