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EK AMERICA IS HATED BY ALL GERMANS'Ex-Senator Lafayette Young Reports They Think We Could End War in Sixty Days.HE SEES NO EARLY PEACEBelieve* Teutonic Allie* Have Sup pile* Enough to Keep Up the Fight for Another Yearifayett*fcapital. who r. turned on v lilting Kuropeaiiwar except Bussia. during nths tour, .-ai l yesterdav a wan regarded with great' z* tin who had returned to th.- country When tin y were horn. He said ‘ I wlnh the American peAple gen «■ ally realised that we have no friends in Hetman- and that even oui . *■not our ft tend*The Hermans think that if th* j shipping of ammunition from America wi re discoi.tlr u*d the war would end in sixty days with a Herman vletory. When ?• i • • ;k i n to Ameri-I lt;;uih. they will talk of nothing hut ammunition I made if a rule not to dim iiilt;ii th. matter or to argu*1 with themIt in a mistake to think that any• r the wnrrlng countries can be starved cut itli.n .. y«ai All of them haw plent »t present Roth• J« rrnanV and Austria have wagons gathering up u.etuls all over the two• -.nutrias Auntrla has instituted a . ainputKn for collecting g'dd from thepeople Men and won on are (rivingup all their Jewelrv made of gold and',n |\.i ii tl,. be to' lit of the Hoverne■ Thev .ir.- printmK »t every day. andill oi inf I.Mi -I . ur»• i. There” in a io hl'-Kii,- - . .t expenditurewhuh only exist* in times of In flation When I arrived In BerlinI had seven different kinds of money, •red •[!■:.• we,, uneven and conflicting value- .11 all of it except Hnglish.. . h.mk notes, whieh appeared to be the st an da i d I had travelers' checks rein n ,th a stipu.uted amount of currency the died foi and t*v-r\ Item of it below |..«I . a ithouK '■ I had paid a premium fm the checks lblt; »U*e so mama in Kuropean Industrie* are dead, theresiii« ur* people win. try to recoup them h.Ivio l.y speculating in the exchange of moneys.nlt; 1 \\h»n I was in Vustria greatnne,i if « .«i j. alhlMiis, and lt;Itixc n* passed''••r'da/r* In1 t Jenna ny* t h-fVuV in. Mm. wax lt;ailed . Joke. but• Mixtrlan* spoke v*-r pioudly of ,.eii Herman alllex 'nK I wax in Berlin when the new*at - • lt;a me of tin- blowing up f the I„usitaniii I do not* speak Herman andfor that icaxon I did not have the l .-t , ; t.. know what the peoplewer.- thinking about, hut I noticed that the bulletin board vvthe news from thim the board withthan the bl 1 iik of the ]I do not bcli. ve that the int*lll gent people of Uermanv Indorse the sinking of the Laixitania. although the t hnughtb xx w e i »• pleased with :t at ’ The icport that the Lusltaiila sink I lug w I* celet.rsted In Berlin h I marching school children or in an-1 ‘ other pul.lie way is not ti ie I thin»rt-| within . y.ar the sinking of theml l.nxitania will be regarded as th-11 / ** l ii V u * 11 i.i and held for twenty ,ns; ( four i • II beti _'h , o- w hen I wax' released. The truth I- that Austria had been accused of .. r ■•■Hit eareles- in |. tting people come ( J .. .a ... at will Tdie Hoc. rnment hadne-1 »c ui ir. and I was one of the firstBuxines* ,11 over Kurope is de moralised New Y ak i* the only city I have si lt;.*° . saw III the la - I four ' l r. * * I: I i. s m Mil *,g. visile.i Th. i. u.'.ralizai. . of husi' la at.d Holland as in the countries:d- It* ports have been sent out thatthe armv m B* Iglum was doing its last to help business 1 think tiii* is a mistake I do not be in- 11 •• v that the armies anywhere haV-h-lpe.l th.* farmers in cultivating th-X In spite ..f the dec larations of certain pres* huieaus. As for bust to rie** otlor than agriculture, the al• etice of mall, telephone, and telegraph facilities j* e nous’ * to bring it to a standstill, a If ciiploniatir relation- are cut offbetw #-en the rnlte.l States and Her ii . .v of course tin relief work 11 will have to ■ -m- to an end 1 Is It lias been a dlffi dt business tlt;-carry on th- w..rk heretofore, arid , with no protection afforded by th** I’ n i ted States diplomatic posts it *l* *• ilei not pre.ct ed 1 did not get m-•I • 1 o’f I I • II IS prep ir . d ».* gwar will last forI think -.ur country is right it. h-mg iHMit i! We have nothing t.gam by going I tv a i with Herman • ■ p- .-!•■ ■ .ghi to be more neutral rhan fln-t at- it i* a mean thing t-sav and it .- ungenerous. hut on •»11111 r % w Mild hit e bon better ofl IT thr,.- had i... no Belgian Relief \*x... lilt Ion and If no Mncrican hos . pi I a I * had established In am.- tlw Belgian Iteli.-f As- ., latn.n in Bel tin- Am.-i i an flag, at.d 1 ag I , • tiv.lv offensive* sour. •• of offense tlt; the Hermans thae ttie American flag was to be found is . in so many shop w indow s in Bel
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