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Show HUN DE '!, OF DISDAIN 1 Yankee Officer Describes Feeling Shown by Prus- sians Toward Americans. ny EDWIN LI JAMES. (New York Times Cable, Copyright.) ('OBhPlNZ, March 7. Apropos of the forling in Berlin toward Arnerii-an officers, offi-cers, 1 yive an extract froni it letter written writ-ten to ;i friend lioro by a pung Ajiierl-c;lii Ajiierl-c;lii officer now stationed in Berlin. lie writes: "We don't iro around r.iueli, for it only makes it, embarrassing for us. Tho Prussians Prus-sians seem to think we are- alill at war, and I havo boon usked (imagino) if I were luisoner. They td"? you the cokl s-ioulder and aro extremely disdainful ovorywl'.ere. That is the reason it is not safe- to roam about Stick to the brightly lighted Htreetn; don't travel alone and don't i'r;iterm,o, though there's not much danger of that. Hero they tiro oSS you. You don't have to be -ordered to lay off thorn. "I have hearr the shout Insf and clamorous clam-orous st uI f about what swell birds these folks of German origin are, u nd maybe I've applauded, too, fas -lr, a ted for Die moment ly their .stalely, upstanding, mode I'ti bui (dines and a (I vanced materia! progress, mid also frankly, with the apparent ap-parent warm -hear I ed reeept ion we got when wo came surging in from "France. T.i'ut I had not been in Berlin (hen; hadn't buen oursed. di.sdained and ousted by everything ev-erything f rom a yellow pup to old tneil, and it occurs to mo that if some more Americans could' come here and if they saw this, fell, it, smelled it. they would be inclined to agree with me. There ain't no sni'h animal as a good German. "There are a few machine guns, vuher ominous looking, near you. always us you walk down tin- street, and they don't ad-veviise, ad-veviise, ;uiy frienulinps here. Also, lake it J rom me, there's bem shool ing u n around here, ihat would hae mudo Nick barter's Bleeding .Hi art look like "Pilgrim's "Pil-grim's I'rogress. yo, brother, digest this, aiid It 's not A merienn projiaganda. Next to your uncle, -whose name is Sammy, your best friend is the old boy in blue w ho helped silence these birds for the ti in o being." |