Show german beope rn eop le are starving wife of american soldier tells of conditions there HARD FIGHT TO GET AWAY AWA y woman has harrowing experiences in trying to leave country says people are fleeing when they can san ban francisco the real conditions in tho the fatherland were described liere by mrs airs george D B tile german wife ot of an Anie rIcan soldier ars I arrived hero here after a plucky fl eglit of oe over five months to get herself find three children out of germany and over here where she fhe could join tier her husband who Is with tile the corps united states army at honolulu germany la Is starving iler her people do not want war and are tile the country when they licy call not so 80 much tho the war but food and where it Is to coilio fl fi oin Is what tile german Gerni nii people lire arc thinh thinking ing of sold sirs Sz adelskI when tile people crowd up too aag orly in the street will milting ting to get tit their r small bit of food illen como come out with whips or pour hot water on them to lunko them orderly that Is in the town of mecklenburg there 0 we o stand waiting uniting two hours or more in n rain or snow but in derlin it Is worse and men and women wait in line all duy buy with cards tit all things are bought by cards even clothing and shoes it if I 1 need a new suit stilt or my little boy needs new underwear I 1 must go to till tho tin and explain the and show them the worn things A grown man or woman gets halt half a pound of meat intent a week it tenth of a pound of butter end and three pounds ot of bread tills this brond broad Is made of potatoes and a kind of green turri turnip lp and Is so soggy that only a little can be eaten nt lit it a time there Is to tio coffee except it und kind made from the turnip and there Is no rice one gets it a fourth of a pound of sugar and there Is no soap boap nt at nil 11 famine theres a famine now noa the ricci yes ves the lie rich chip cnn buy a goose but they must pay tot for it marks about 44 I 1 have seen wild ravens sold in sterlin for three and one half marks everything Is much worse than america thinks yet there will be no revolution that Is thern there nrc jfe no nun nt at homo home to make a revolution tho the women 11 look it at one another and shake their leads heads when tile tho men como come back to la the ho word they hoy pass around wo we have men of fifty and seventy for homo home di defense and in as an doctors nna an and WP we have bys boys of fourteen all other men are arc in tho the army mrs airs said eaid she never received which hor her husband sent san her last february 7 A woman frient frlan of hers who went to the authorities for money sent seat from america wits was told that no more money from the source would bo be given to any private person do not want war tile the people to do not wit want n t war but what enn they do they cannot even say what they think or there would soon boon he be chalca a around their necks yet there Is hitter bitter feeling against at america I 1 would he be sorry for any so liller that flint falls into the hands of tile germans either cither the soldiers or the people that la Is because tho the newspapers talk always of tho the j ali boing of amerlan anil and the people believe belle ve what they road real they begin began I 1 hating america Aroe ilca long ag ago 0 when the heard it was aiding Ln england gland it Is not franco france so much but england and america that aeri germany nany hates sergeant had been an Amer amerlean lenn gold soldier ler for years before ho he met and married the little german woman during a visit to germany several years ago but lie fie left just before the war this to led to suspicions that lie he wai wa 4 tin nn american spy rind and so when ills his wife wished to leave germany last may she led had an immense deal of red tape to untangle for a month slie site had to go 90 before tile the police each day then site she was waa summoned to berlin at the border every scrap of paper but her passport was taken away and in n copenhagen she was re rc hilved coldly by the american legation because they would not belleme hat flint the wife of an american soldier would speak only german after correspondence with secretary lansing ond and other 9 the he legation was finally dually convinced that file was not a spy and she was permitted to for new york silo she win will leave in a few lays days with their three children for honolulu |