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Show MORTIMER WON GIVES IMPRESSIONS OF GERMM j Mortimer Watson, son of President I John Watson, of the Weber stake, has I arrived home from Germany, where he . passed the greater part of twenty six I months as a Mormon missionary. El-dor El-dor Vatson left Germany about seven ' weeks ago, on account -.f tho war in J which that countr is involved. He also did missionary work in Switzer land. Thiy, morning, in speaking of the j conditions which led up to his leave-I leave-I ing Cerrnanv. ho said that he was at Muenchen when war was declared and that suspicion immediately fell upon i all foreigners and that many of them I wore thrown into prison as spies Despite Des-pite this fact, the missionaries con tlnued their labors until the order came from the headquarters of tho European Eu-ropean missions for them to leave the , continent During this period, he learned of the great power of the Ger- man military system, the agents of which, he says, seem to know every foot of ground in other countries. I After he and one of his companions i had returned one day from a trading I trip, a military agent came to the I houeo and questioned the landlady I about them asking first who thev were The lad answered that they were students and then came the statement and question. "Well, they are distributing pamphlets pamph-lets and talking from house to house: what are they doing, trlng to hatch up some plot?" Further questioning along this tine forced the landlady to tell that thf were missionaries and that the pampu-lets pampu-lets were on religious subjects. The agent then told her that he did not wish to arrest he young men. but j th.'it It would be best for them to er-aso tractlng and to keep off the streets as there wore mnn foreigners in the j city and the people were so bitter against them thlnklncr they were' f-pfes that officers could not be responsible re-sponsible for their safety While on the way out of Germany, Elder Watson and his companions were arrested several times, on sns plcion of being English spies One' of these Incidents occurred at Aues- j burg and tbe were put through the 'third degree" for several hours, the German officials making a careful examination ex-amination of their passports and other credentials After being satisfied that they were Americans, the officers sot them at liberty as In oorv Instance I that the Ogden men noted the Amen-1 cans were treated with the highest ! consideration when their citizenship' was established The good will of Americans, Mr. Watson said, is being eagerly courted and the general feel ! inn amonc the German people is that the empire has the sympathy of I America Of the bulk of the German people, i the Ogden man has the highest opln-j ion. their high degree of Intelliernre j with resffcrd to tho science, agr!eul- ture and the fine nrts having Impressed him deeplv The people are kind-hearted kind-hearted and through their treatment of him ag a missionary, h? learned to o' ( them. An instancp of this be relied re-lied (n connection with the family Ith which he was stavinc which alo gives an insight as to the rigid cen-' cen-' rshlp of the meals. For nine weeks he was unable to get a letter across the German border, even by sending them open, as they were returned with a notice that owing ow-ing to war conditions thev could not be delhered Lott?r mailed to him: were also held up and for this reason at the time when the order from Presl- j dent Wilson for all Americans to leave Germany was read to him, with others, at a meeting in Muenchen. he was not onto in debt to his landlady, but was without means to purchase transportation. The jandiadv not only told him that he did not need to worry about his indebtedness to her, and j pressed enough monev upon him to pay his expenses out of the country, saying that it would not matter If he n-vcr returned it This kindhearted ness. he said, was characteristic of tho people At the time of his departure from Germany, he said that the Krupp gun factories at Essen were being operat ! ed day and night, with 53.000 men on a shift. Since the openlug of tho I war, the German newspapers had been publishing nothing but favorable news and the people were confident of coming out victorious, but as the wounded began to be brought in. the impression that all was not well with the German army began to take form and he heard expressions of doubt as Its continued successes. The Pruv sians or military party in the north, however, dominates everything and the kaiser Is looked upon with a confidence con-fidence that Is Implicit The stories of cruelty told of the German soldiers sol-diers in the foreign press, also be came known to the German people They were given no credence, how-evor, how-evor, and Elder Watson s laudludy asktd him to put his people right as lar as he was able to do so, on this question, when he got home With this in view, ho closely observed ob-served conditions in England and also talked to English soldiers held prls-oners prls-oners at Lochhausen. He asked the trillion of the soldiers with regard to i ho alleged cruelties and was ari-were ari-were to the effect that they had seen nothing of them and did not bolieve that any had been committed. Hi alio traveled for three weeks in Great Britain and failed to see anything any-thing that would bear out the stories of cruelty Elder Watson went to England via Holland, sailing from Rotterdam to London. He passed three weoks in Great Britain and was Impressed with the apparent lightness with which the English treated the crisis that was before them In eon ersatlona with territorials, he hoard tho expression on several occasions that the struggle strug-gle would not last a fortnight Tho English, he said, do not seem to bo answering the call for volunteers with much enthusiasm, the opinion being that tho colonies can be drawn upon for lighting men to an extent sufficient suffi-cient to meet the emergency The men of Scotland and Ireland, however, how-ever, are iallying to lrd Kitchener's call In a splendid manner. l he ridicule of Germany and all things German, by the English press, was also noted by tho Ogden man, and with regard to this, he said that I German Strength" was treated as a Joke, especially by the territorials. The trend of feeling with regard to the war. by the English people generally, gen-erally, as far as Mr. Watson was able to observe, was not against the German Ger-man people, but against the kaiser and his Prussian soldiery In concluding his conversation. Elder Watson stated that the Ger Oiane were drawing supplies from ev- i j possible source and that the sources were rapidly growing fewer The people had not changed their standard of living to any great extent at the time he left Germany, but the WOrK In the fields and on the 6treets for the most part was being done by women. He returned to America about a month ago, a warm admirer of the German people, armed with a copy of the "German White Paper' and I well versed in it Before coming west he visited In j New York City, Boston, Washington, j Philadelphia, Kansas Ciflv, Chicago and ether large cities. The growth of his home town, he said had been splendid and in his opinion of it is that It is the best place on earth. |