IN GERMANY.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 285, 18 March 1919, Page 7

IN GERMANY.

■ Mi" \\. I). Baylev, wife of one «»t lb (. anadian Prohibition campaigncf , now in New Zealand, lias received th following letter from her brother, Op' am A. I). Mcßae, M.C., who is ih with the army of occupation beyond the Rhine. Captain M< Kae, v: ting from Bonn, Germany, on l)e- - says:— ■ “Here we are at last at the Rhine, aid at present located at the above fa! < ity. This is a l niversity city, ad a very hne one. 1 do not know th population, but should judge some vie ie between one and two hundred th is.rnd. The buildings are very fir indeed, and it is well located. H“\\c crossed the border into Germ i\ on the morning of December 4fh. and have been on the move al jjm >t daily since landing here at noon I* We sure have these birds where w« want them now, and they have to w; i ft their step, and step lively too. It is rather funny walking into some sfull house, looking it over, and then slin«5 lin« the Hun proprietor which room u intend to live in for the night. ■“The men all have to raise their bl'.s to the ndicers, and dag us as we pi" along tlie roads or through the flics. Sometimes they try to slink b) <>r feeling « hesty, decide not to do so and as a ronscouenre get them kicked off. The ones with felt hats uiually figure the best, as it is a simple matter to swipe a felt hat off wrh i cane without greatly damaging th cranium under it. whereas those with peak caps usually get the odd jo i on the “bran” as well as losing ■ hat. ■ k l«>r miles after crossing the* frontier the country is very sparsely set tick hut as w<> neared the Rhine it Bt quite thickly settled, with lots of le towns and villages. ■‘l here is only one language the Min understands, and lie is just foxv H"iigh to know that lie would be out I lu<k if lie did not do what was

wanted of him, so we hnd the world conquerors of last March quite willing to li< k one’s boots. Talk about k;ds there- are thousands of them; never saw so many in my life. I hey are greatly pleased with the show, of course, and follow the* band for great ways. “The talk and noise put up by the Hun about the people over here starving is all rot. and but a game of the win* Hun to tr \ and gain sympathy.”