Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-30 | Page 2 | Germans Now Assert Rights Says Courier

B' I li Jl...f....iJ ...m itf UH -M -frw3a5l fall in- SBHI BERNE, Wednesday. Nov. 27. (By the Associated Press) Thp amazing changes in Germany, especially to i those who know the stern system of former days, are illustrated by many stories brought to Switzerland from Germany by travelers. i A Dutch diplomatic courier tells of his first trip after the break up of the empire. He was unable to got I farther than Cologne because there i j mum ju me railway trains, xie went to tho workmen's and soldiers' council to apply for a seat on a southbound south-bound train. He found a group of common soldiers seated in a big room, joking and smoking and spitting on the floor. The leader of the soldiers asked the courier what kind of treatment the German couriers received in Holland On learning that they were given an entire railway compartment, the soldier sol-dier said he guessed the Dutch should have the same privilege in Germnnv Ho told the courier to go to the military mili-tary commandant's office. There the courier found an old time officer who at first sternly refused permission. Hci granted it instantly, however, when told that the soldiers had given their permission. un tne train the courier found a general gen-eral at a table. Soon three common soldiers entered and seated themselves at the general's table. Without-saluting or even noticing, the general, thoy began to eat. Another new arrival "In Switzerland is a Russian who entered Germany bv way of Brest-Litovsk and Warsaw. He was worried lest his marked Russian accent make trouble, so he did not talk for hours. Finally, however, speech becamo imperative. His fellow travelers demanded his identitv and when the Russian revealed It they ml?' delused him with attention. I The Russian reached Switzerland convinced that the Germans in overturning over-turning their government also overturned over-turned most of their one time customs. cus-toms. He Said their habits of thinking think-ing had changed as no ono ever had 1 believed possible. I