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Show WRITES IITERESTI LETTER JJHE WAR Brother of Salt Lake Man Throws Sidelight on the Situation Abroad SIDES WITH GERMANY Says Troops of the Kaiser Feel That They Will Be Victorious An interesting s del ght on the sent ment of the German people as to the cause of the European conflict is given in a letter rece ved yesterday by Wil ham bontag. better known as Billy Sunday of th s city from h s brother who s an instructor in a Catholic school at Voelpke Magdeburg Ger many The letter sa d rn part I suppose you have heard that we are in a state 6f -war I was not drafted as a reserv st as even n a state of war our government tries to keep schools go ng and leaves at the head of every school one teacher In order to gife you our polit cal s tuat on I ha e to go back for some t me Pract calry everybody knew or was aequa nted w th the fact that we would be n a war be fore long because all European na t ons were n a race of preparation for war and were only looking for an excusable cause Tn s was found n the assass nat on o the successor to the Austr an throne It was no surpr se that nncivi 1 zed Buss a would take the part of the gypsy Serv ans and strength en the r sp nes to get n trouble iv th Austr a because R ss a was afte tbe collar of Austr a It should have been clear to Buss a that she would have to meet Ger many and Austr a hand in hand AVar on Two Fronts Inasmuch as Buss a ignored the many orders of the ka ser to stop mob 1 z ng Germany declared war on Buss a and knew at the same t me that she would have to m et Trance in the west bo we have war on two fronts The att tude of England was not clear but a couple of days ago she declared a state of war This in fur ated the population ofGermany n the worst way because they could never bel eve that so d ffe ent people of a d fferent nat on and a d fferent race would procla m broth er love for each other Tl e gentlemanly French expect us sure on the boundary of Alsa e Lorra ne but our sold ers have al ready rushed nto Belnum and therefore Belg am has declared a state of war So our fatherland s surrounded by hostile forces her only helper be ng her brother ius trla But I don't trust those peo pie, with very much courage as the r present operat ons aga nst the 4 Serbs are very slow Of the plans of the general staff we haven t the si ghtest idea. We don t even know ho s n harge of the gc e al omman Tort Reported Taken Tl s n orn ng I leceived a lette tron a f r en 1 who had been n front of I ett h (L ege) a d he tain tbev have taken the ort by tor Toda a weel ago ou u fcust t e ol 1 zat o v i an no need bv the ing ng of the b g bell and th n os or tho people ere lool ng for tbe r hearts 1bc r shoes b t today the sound aDrt the worl of va see ns old Tlf no 1 ?at on went along n t e f nes orler Tho gb the t anB ortat o of troops was an e or o s p oblen tbe tra ns were all on t o in aDd out The whole tow ent to the itat on n force to 1 d farewell to the sold ers w th iff a loud an 1 lolly hooray L, erybodv was shouting gasun les w cder jr cl sta hearty till we meet i aga a B t bow many w 11 be de e ed in th s hope? Nevertheless among the German people there is a patr otic feel ng of wh ch every German should be proud So n any of our volunteers of fered the r services that it was mposs ble for the regiments to even take their appl cat ons Es lee ally the barracks of the cavalry as the Uhlans and the Hussarstare stormed w th appl cat ons every body wants to go The r hate is eBpec ally pointed toward B ss a who through mob 1 z ng brought on the war French Dragged In The French through their &1 1 ance were dragged into the dance of war because the French people never wanted a war with Germany In n y opra on the French will be the heav est sufferers as our ma n army will go aga nst them It is too bad Tho fight ng of the Ens 6 ans will go partly to the Ans tnans When you see our German soldiers n the r pike gray un forms you surely must bel eve that they will be'v ctonous and may the Lord grant t It would be too bad to have tbe rough barbarous Buss ans step into our country What the future w 11 br ng we do not know Yesterday we heard that Uncle Sam would help us aga nst England but th s does not seem to be true Everywhere they seem to be gett ng ready for war and it seen s as If we are on the ee of a world f re A year ago today we were an using ourselves in the salt water at Salta r, but today it looks different It is horr ble |