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ENGLISH SCHOOLGIRLS DIARY OF THE WAR.
[United Press Association.]
London, August 17
The d aiy or an English schoolgirl at- Fouron, near Vise, says: “The Germans are magnificent. The meanest soldier is perfectly equipped. Everything is new and splendid, and the horses are like a theatre. The soldiers are so perfect. They are awfully nice.”
A ext day she writes: “The Germans arc very nice if they are given what they want, but if you refuse, >he pistol ernes out.” Entries in the diary on the three following days: “The Germans are furious at losing so many men. Prowling' guilds are destroying houses and gardens, their pockets bulging with bottles of vino and other loot. The nuns asked the invaders to spare tht convent. They laughed, and said they would make it a cemetery for their dead. We fled.” ; V ■ ■ , ' '■ • ( ALIENS AT OUR TABLES. London, August 17. Ten thousand German and Austrian waiters are still in London. English waiters are placing placards in the hotels and restaurants calling upon Pritish citizens to refuse to, be served bv their alien enemies. FROM MILAN TO COPENHAGEN. London, August 17. JMu.V) Aacre. has arriverd in Copenhagen afte 1 ' an uncomfortable jou rev from Milan through mobilised Ei"’opo. As soon as ho crossed the German frontier he was stripped naked and . his clothing scrupulously sea? oh-, ed. He travelled in a cattle' train through France, eating dry bread. The Prince embarked at Havre on a freight steamer, in company with hundreds of Russian and Scandinavian refugees.
SUPPOSED SPY AT AN AERO-
DROME.
40,000 RECRUITS IN A WEEK.
London, August 17
Robertson, a sentry at the Brooklands aerodrome, thrice challenged a supposed spy and then fired. The spy returned the shot, wounding the sentry, and escaped to tho neighboring wood.
Forty thousand men have been recruited for Lord Kitchener’s second army in a week. Seven thousand daily are now being recruited.
WORK FOR WOMEN.
London, August 17
Queen Mary is inaugurating a scheme to secure work for women who are unemployed owing to the war
BRITISHERS WELL TREATED BUT CORDIALLY HATED,
Now York, August 16.
Americans from Berlin state that although the popular hatred against the English is intense, they are being well treated by the authorities.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 8
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