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Xiht of in litt In th two proviuce,
which, froni oltlen tlme, ha alway
UKia aa the rlght of the mW.
Hottnla and Her.iKovhia adopted our
tnc-asurea and elgbta. Uur postal
ond te!etraiih at-rvire was also ex
tendd ovpr Bosnia and Hirzegovlna
la 1879. On November 13. m, a
. law was nactPd Introducln mllitary
tervlro In Rosula and Hprzeovlna
for the bcncfit of AiiBtria-Hungary.
What remained reitHy to Indicate
the eoverflüti righU of the Ottoman
Porte? Two preroRativea, to wit:
that on oflicial Turalsh holiday the
Oreen Flas of the Projihet was
holsted, toscther with our, on public
biiildlngs, and that the name of the
Eultaa was inciuded in the public
jrayers.
During the thlrty, yearg ot her
peaceful possesuion and quasi
cwnerahlp, Auatrla-HunRary invested
hundred of mllliona of Jollara in
bullding churchea, Bchools, raDroada.
roads, etc., etc., and ha tranaformed
the two provlncea int practlcaily
the raost flourishins countries In the
Balkans, although they wer rulned
nd desolate in every respect, when
he assumed Charge of them la 1878.
The formal annexatlon in 1908
ended the Sultan's nominal iov
ereignty and put a terra to an
anomalous Situation which had laated
thlrty years, AuBtria-Hungary bearing
all the respostBlblllties but not the
formal title of the owner. Why was
the annxatlon proclalmed and why
did wo not continue the form er way
f rule? Because, in 1908, the Vouniz
Turka inltiated a parllarnentary
reglrne in Turkey and it would have
created a vcry awkward "Situation
and no end of Conflicts, had Turkey,
for instance, called upon the Mos
lems in Bosnia and Herzegovlna" to
send delegates to the Parllnment in
Conatantlnople. The annexatlon of
these provlnccs was a portectly harrn
lesa affair. No blood was ahed, no
harrn wasdone to anybody of the
populatlon which, far from objecting
to it, sent delegations to Vienna
sskin for a füll incorporatlon lnto
tb Dual Monarchy, Kuasla knew f
it beforehand and gave her consent
cn condltloa that we dld not obJect
to the openlng of the Stralta of
Constantinople to her battleahlps,
etc. Thls was declded at a Con
ference of the rpspec.tive represent
.atives In the Caetle of Luchlau,
Moravla. , It Is truo thls latter
privllege was later objected to by
both Trance and England, but Rus
sia's subaequent anta?nnlsm agalnst
Anstria-Himgary on thls sccount,
which flnally led to the sormution
of the Balkan league, was "unjustlfled.
. As to Turkey,' which was the chlefly
interested party, we made a regulär
bargaln wlth her, paylng her an in.
deronity of flfty-four Million crowns
tor the abandonment by the Sultan
ot nudum Jas soverplgnty, Just as
you dld in the case ot the Philippiners.
We also gave up our rights to the
Fandjak of Novl Bazar, which we
had aequlred through the Berlin
Convention, In 1878. The slgnatory
powers oC the Congress of Berlin
weie formally notlfled and ocquleoced.
Bervia, which had no clalm what
oever to Bosnia and Herzesovina,
was the only power which remon
slrated, bt was flnally, In '1909,
udmonlthcd by all the Creat Piwers
ot Kurope to keep peace with tho
Dual Monarchy and to live with her
hencefofth as a good nelghbor. She
That Ib, we pald the Sultan the
um of 1,800,000 crowna for the prayers
sald on hls bfhalf each year for
ihlrry year during which the occupa
tion had lasted. That is not such s
b4 j-ecord!, Jn it J
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vou in dir to z sin x,,r G,, t kl.
I,pati t, bl Ini-r hlt b you
irxiiiliin diK not .i ily erldertco for
your statpnictit. Tbre wer ial
(tintfiiia in Iiuttrtia and Ilt-rifgovina
Jut an Utero are In yur ctstinfry
end, in frt, i-vprywlit're, wbu du
not siiipni !iie wuli die govniiiüK'itt or
the alrnlnlgtratlnii, nnd In our rase,
thry wtre In a strung nlmnty, I
H'fcr to "Austrla-Hungttry and the
War'' and to the AustroHur.gai lau
Ued liook to show how In Hosnla
bild Ht'WKüviiia thse tualcootents
have bupn artincinlly foaicred by
Serviun Intrlgues. Our evidonce i
thlnk is aniple and coDciuslve.
Hut to facilltate your tiisk in stnding
fconie of thls evidence 1 will point
out bar sorne passages coutaint-d in
the Auatro-Iiungarlnn Ited Book.
(a) In the report of Baron Glesl
to Count Berchtold, under No. VI,
you find this Jansuagc: "Lines the
annpxation crisis, the re'aUori
Vetwci-n the Dual Monarchy and
Servia have been stralned by the
Zlngoi. and animoaity of the latter
and by an efTectlve Propaganda for
the "Great Servlan" cause, carrled
on in those partt of our country
which are inhabited by Serbe. Ser
via's succesees in the Balkan wars
have intenaifled that jingoism until
it now manifest itseif at times in
outbreak yf frantic passion border
log upon madness." .
I afflrm it as an establlshed
th Red J!ik (Cinint Brri!o!d t
sonnt Merm.lnrf l : in vlr of lh
fs-t thnt th Si.rvUn tivtiernirifiu
a fuliy aare ta;it th ttucoii
t;ltlonal arceptanp of our dt;nand
ai'Uie rould fatlufy im, the ßprvian
tnrtlrs are pail fattniinpil. Srvla
las arrepted, with vnrlons rperva
tirms, avpral of our doniands In
order to ilot'tilve puli.ic oplnlon In
Kurope, contldcnt that he nevpr
. onld be called upon to carry out
hpr pronild. In your tna visa!lon
wlth Sir L'dward Orey, yoiwill lay
partlcular strs upon tho circum
Manecs that the gcneral moblllzation
of th Servlan army was ordered for
July the 25 th. 3 o'clock P. M., wrtH
th reply to our not was handed In
shortly befor the npiratlon of the
ttlpulated time, a few minutes before
6 o'clock." Froru thls alone it cao
be scn, that Hervla's answer was
mado In bad faith,
Your stateraent that in Article 5
the Imperial (?) schein of Pan
UermaniBm (!) was developod aounds
to utterly absurd, to anyone who
evpn has a sllght knowledge ofcondl
tlons in Europe, that one must
wonder how you could asaume to
answer those ninety-three Gcrman
Professors, known all over the world
as the repreaentatives of thnrough
and conscientious research. Wblch
Imperial ucheme do you mean?
Austria-Hungary's, Germany's? Linuse
E of our demands purported the
estabüshment in Belgrad of a
Governmental Information Bureau,
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axiom that Servia's poilcy has but such as Russla bad in Paris undJ
one alm, namely, the detachment
from the Dual Monarchy of all ter.
ritorles inhabited by South-Slavs and
the eventual destructlon of that
Monarchy as a great power. Nobody
who has spent a week In the dis-
Charge of bis duties In thls poütlcal
othtzr governments rautually enter-
taln in European Capitals.
As to Article 6, Servia served tho
same demand on Hungary in 18tt8-70
In coupection wlth th' murder of
Prince Obrenovlc (pp. 64-6n-6fi-67 of
"Austrla-Hungary and the War").
atmospsere can questlon the trutb- Hungary then thotight thls was the
of rny aasertion. most natural demand to rnake under
"I shall pass over the absurd ac- the clrcurnstances and at once ao.
cusations ralsed onr'the occasion of
Hartwigs oeatn, ntterances verging
on madness, which the London
"Times" qualifled as "raging mad."
Nor shall I dweil upon the menda-
clous press campalgn which endeavors
to confirm th Servlan peopl in
thelr conviction that the government
of Austria-Hungary, as well as its
tepresentatlves, are outlawed Terms
Hke "murderers," "rascals." ör "in-
famous Austrlana, were some f tlie
ornamental by-words applled ta us.
Hartwig's death. which meant a
profound beroavement to the Servlan
politlcal world, has been followed by
a fanatlc cult of the departed. Thls
sentlraent, kowever, was due not only
to gratitude for bis assistance in the
past. but to a sense of apprehenslon
as to the future. Every effort was
made to pless Russla by a display
of slavs-llke serviiity, In Order to
securs that country's good-will for
the futurs." i
(b) Read No. VIII of the Red Book
In Us entirety. In contains Count
Bercbtold's lnstructlons to the
Imperial and Iloyal Ambassadörs at
Berlin, Rom, Paris, London, St.
Petersburg, and Constantinople, on
cernlng our not to Servla.
(c) Read the Memolr of the Red
Book under XIX.
III. "Austrla at once assumed to
hold Servla responslble for thls
cepted it. Nobody even thought of
consideriiig thls as an encronenmeut
of Hungary's suzerainty. We,. In
18G3-70, had nothing to conceal to
the world. Servla In 1911 had a
lot to conceal. She was afrald ot
the truth of her gullt becoming' com
mon property,
IV. Equally absurd Is your conten
tlon that "already Austrla ' had
ravlshed Servla of two of her precious
jewela and was laying her plans now
to despoil her of mors." I presume
that you thlnk of Bosnia and Herze
govlna, when you say "her precious
jewels." Servla has never owned
elther ot the two, never Kas ruled
over them even for a day as It is
exhaustlvely shown In Chapter IV of
"Austrla-Hungary and the War," con
cernlng Servia's Claims over Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
Czar Dusan, who evolved the Idea
ot a Ureater Servlan Empire, has
never ruled over Bosnia and Herze
govina. He had Invaded these prov
inces twice and was botk times
defeated, once in 1333 ty Stephan
otromanovlcs (Stephan II), chiet
Zsupan of Bosnia, and the second
tlme most decisively by King Louis
the Great of Hungary, On the other
band, has Servia for many centuries
been a vaasal of the Klogdom of
Hungary.
V. "It Is well that w should keep
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Our niodillkatw asniimt g-rvi wam ,(. tt:flt' .n-i.ria Uimaarir b, nttt,
I rüfinünt A July 2'tth Our s-eiinrnl irli-r .'on-.i!v or oilier! Jcr
mohllUatifin tm Aucmt Ist. If you mnnl-rd hfr var.oun natlim'alltlta,
ill csn-fullv re.-ead the Cwr k hlrh. Itnsin In her place, oald
ftussl'i's tplf'rram tu His Maipnty rf rtalnly lnt donp.
Kalmr Wilhelm II. of July 30t ti, you Aiihtrlii-ilimtiary mithin in th
will find thi-.rein tlie fullowing tupft-' j ant has lx"n thut of b-ing a bmwark
far,p; "I lhank you from my heart , 0f f-ttern ' Kuroup and OccidPiital
for your quick reply. I am spudlng Chrintlanitv sraiimt th, brutal,
lonipbt TatiHliPff (Husslan honorary j mnlurial invrlon from tho Orient,
II Orienui triflupncp
A 1 1 f I l llitMMaiitf' np.4nit It .&
ri nn li iu - j i niihai r v i i t m- i . siir . . . , . ,., .
....k. .k.. v.I.,1. ... , aiue to ine iaiar witn instrtictions. :nd Inst
ZVn 7 stralned !lha .S"" now takln ..dnng..r,n what we call Occidental
Kad Pif Edward Grey honestlv
. .. ... ... I- 1 J lh. ...... J Alnnt "t n
rauroer, an aispaicnea an oitimaium " u '"-" "uJCt. . wa.
contalning ten drastio condltlons 1 many and Austrla In maklng thls
which wer more exsctlng upon the slgnificant demand pon Lervia. in
dlgnity of Lervia than any demand
that was ever before made by one
Nation upon another. Vet Lervia
y ieided to all except In parta as to
Artlcles 5 and 6. Iu article 5 the
imperial schern of Pan-Germanlsm
was devoloped Insidfously broached,
I'. Is true, but still it was pnt belore
Bervia ss a deilnlte psrt ot tbe plan
ot Austro-German expanslon. Sei via
was requlred "to accept th collauora- j
tlon in Servla of rspresentatlves ot
the Austro-Hungarlan government in
the suppresalon of the subversive
niova.rent dlrectsd sa!nst tl; ter
ritorial lntegrlty of th (Austrian)
monarchy."
Goncernin thes Statement it an
easlly be Been that your Knowledge
Is gatkered from the daily press more
than from the perusal of the various
lüplotnatlo papers. If Austria-Hungary
assumed at once to hold Bervia
rSRnonslble for the murder of the
A . . - i- .,-.
order that we roay be able to avold
the error of assuroing that the
Austrian war on Servla was merely a
punltlve expedltlon on aecount ot the
tissasslnatlon of the Crown Prince of
Austrla. When these mlnatory condl
tlons were publlshed, iRussla, as on
of the great powers ot Europe,
nsturally feit that she bad ahlstorical
bssl. end she dld ernphatlcally clalm
a right to a volc. In deterraluing
wbether. the aovsreignty of the klng
aom of Servia should b permavsntly
impaired. Germany well krw that
in insistence upon th! eondition
would rnnk a general war Inevitable:
yet sh proclalmed bar ivsisteas,
from the housetops, nnd defled Rus
sla to interfere."
I have tound eight particular1 in.
slances In our Red Book In which
Austria-HmiKary.j through her author
ized representatives, had ernphatlcally
deckred to' Russla, or th Kuropesn
wanted to settle mnlters ppnrpfully,
he could have done It very simpiy by
impressing upon Russla and Francs
to keop out of the local imbroglio
between Servia and AustriaHunnary.
Today we know that England had
englneered thls world-war by bring
ing about the secret Brltish-French
eutente, secret British Russinn
entente, Britlah-Japanese treaty and
secret Brilieh-Belgian Military under
standing. Consequently, Sir Edward
Grey could not and did not honestly
mean a peaceful settletnent, wtien he
suggested hls plan of a Conference.
VI. As regards your Statement
concemlng Article 6, which you as
sert contained an "unprecedented
eondition that Austrian Jurists should
Bit in the Servlan Court" this is
agaln unfounded both in substanceJ
and fact. We merely asked that
"Austro-Hungarlan officials should be
admltted to co-operate In the pre
liminary police Investlgatisn which
was to seek out and collect data for
the Judiclal Inqulry." See- the En
closure to XXXIV, in the Austro
Hungarlan Red Book.
VII. - What you say about Servia's
cundld effer to hold further con.
versatlons on the Subject or to reker
the matter to The Hague Court or
to the Great Powers of Europe, is
agaln not borne out by fuctB. You
assume that Servla was candid In all
herMoinj's, yet could she have easlly
avolded the whole lmbroslio and the
holoworld-war by simpiy abstain
Ing from some of the following
actlvlties: Systematlc promotlon of
anti-Austro-Hungarlan sentiment both
In her own country and in our
country: organizatlon of open and
teeret socletles to proraote an antl-
Austro-Hungarlan Propaganda: send
Ing ot murderers to our country who
Ikllled or tried to kill our Governors,
Generals, Archdukes (I refer to the
murderous attetnpts on the Bauus of
Croatla, Baron Skerlecz; the Croatian
Commissioner, Dr. von Cuvay; Mili
tary Governor of Bosnia, Baron Va
resanin, etc., etc.); the eutire Greater
Servlan Propaganda which with her
other doings was in dir et vlolatlon
of her pledge given to the Great
Powers in 19Ü9 to live as a good
nelghbor with th Dual Monarchy.
The answer why our Servlan dif
ferences could not have been sub
mitted to The Hague Court you find
In Chapter II of "Austrla-Hungary
nd the War." We mlght ask you
th same question: Why did your
country not suhmit tbe "Mains
question" to The Hagu? Court, before
going to war agalnst pain? we bad
form wfre dpclded upon five day
go." This tplepram Is In, lutied In
the Cermun White Paper. It Is ci, ar,
therefore, that acenrding to this of
ficlal Russinn admlssion for who
Civilisation
If st times distiatlsfaerton has bepn
voired by isolated kr, tlons of our
riütlonaiities, thls was IihuI only and
due to our adoption of too lenieut
was bester nuallnod to make such mnthods. We also, in a ffw instances,
an aunnsHion man uie czar nimaeit:
Russla hegen her Military moblllza
tion measures on July 25th, We know
of course, today, from othor evidence,
that Russla began the mobllizatlon
of her Riberian army corfis shortly
after the murder of our Crown
Prince.
IX This is what you say further
down: ''For Austria ls only a ram
shackle empire, bound together by
& rope of sand, not able to assimllate
various races into one homogeneous
tiatlon,'' This Statement beirays two
may have earned Ingratitttdo where
recognltlon was merlted. But do not
everrate these instances and do not
vncierrate the coliesive strength of
ihe Monarchy. Remember that even
H. Adams Gibbons, who is a Cham
pion of the Allies' cause eays In his
"New Map of Europe," "The Austro
Hungarlan Empire has been founded
upon sound politlcal and economic
princlplea which far transcend a
slngle life or a dynasty."
X. In regard to the alleged Ger-
man atrocities in Belgium permlt me
things on your part: your total I to draw your attention to the fact
ignoranco of matters concerning the ' that our country declared war on
Dual Monarchy and the origin of
your source from where you slavishly
quote, to wit: Lioyd George's speech
on "Austria's ranishackle empire,"
which was publlshed In the daily
Belgium for the atrocities of Belgian
civilians against Austro-Hungarian
non-combatants. This is what the
declaration of war contained in No.
LXVII of the Austro-Hungarian Red
press. A8sumlng that this speech eays: in view or me recentiy
was really made, I would Ilke to stablished fact that Austrian and
draw your attention to the rather
reinarkaMs fact; that this "rara.
shacKIe empire'' still gives a gooii
Hunganan Subjects resident in
Belgium have. under the eyes of the
Royal authorlties, been trested in a
aecount of itseif beth in a military manner contrary to the most prim-
way nd econonucally. that is ttive laws ot bumanlty, and inad
iinanci.ly. in fact, a rauch better nilssible toward Subjects of a hpstile
aecount in both ways than England! S'.ate, Austrla-Hungary-to necessarily
We had to hold oft the immense compellod to break off diplomatic
ar-iies of Russian millions and we relatlons and considers herseif from
have held them ofT, relylng on our pow on ln a state of war with
own strength alone Can the British : Belgium."
say as much for themseives, wdo I Tne balance of your remarks con
have bought hlrelings from all pver ! rns Germany more directly than.
tbe world to do the fighting for Ihein Austrla-Hungary and 1 leave it, there
whlle their sons play cricket and fore t0 others heiter qualified than
iooioau ai nome: uo you can a
couiilry a "ramshackle empire'' which
ralsed three and one-half bililon
crowns in a week aniong Its own
people, ss we did in November last,
end ralsed witbln the very flrst days
of the war nearly a Million vo
lunteers that ls men who, under the
law, were pot ilable to any kind of
military Service; whereas lt took the
famous Kitchener army of a mlüion
volunteers eight months not yet to
materiaiize. That is undotibtedly
also a record. Although Austrla
Hungary today Is surrounded by a
myriad of enemies enlisted for Eng
land's seifish purposes, we have
the strengest posslble confidence that
she and Germany will come out as
the ultlmate Victors. The rope of
I to answer you.
Frorn the above excerpts one
iould, however, have to come to the
conclusion, that in launching your
Pamphlet, you were not sufflclently
prepared to nieet the iesues; in other
words, you are maklng your con
cluslons in a superficial way, based
on surface knowledge. ,1 am no Ger
man, but as far as I know Germane,
I know that there is nothing which
they more deprecate than assumed
judgment based on surface knowledge.
Your Statements concerning the Ger
man issues contain, I am afraid,
nothing but a bündle of errors, and
I could weil under tand If these
conscientious German Professors
would leave your pamphlet without
reply.
I do not know for what you stand
In thls war. From various state-
sand which you mentlon ia really a
aolden bond of fealtv which ha held
together our glorious monarchy forjmentB f your pamphlet I galned the
far mors centuries than the United ! Impression that you must have fa'len
States is In existence. The historyl comparatlveiy easy prey to tbe
of the common cast and .common I wl!l-o'-the-wisp and fsney tories of
at least as good a reason to go to ; traditlons have welded all our various ; sorne reporters. So it came that
war agalnst Servla as you had agalnBt ' nationalities together In a much von can believe that unhappy,
Spaln. Our country was peacefully firmer Union than England and Ire-, Ignorant Servia could he the
lnclined to the last and I refer you iand, much firmer than both you, J Champion of indlvidual freedom and
here to No. LI of the Red Book,
showlng that even as late as July
31st Count Berchtold Issued instruc
Ilona to our Ambassadörs In St.
Petersburg and London "to thank
th Secretary of Stat warmly for
th communicatlon mad by Herr von
Tschlrachky and to exprei our
readine to conldr Sir Edward
Grey' propcaltlon to mediate between
us and 8arvla daspit th hange
brought about In th Ituatlon by
Russla't mobllizatlon."
In vlew et what you dar to assert,
that "Germany das not dared to
publlsh dr orrespondnc with
Austrla and that Austria has nt
dared to publlsh her correspondenc
wlth Germany," thls Statement of our
State Secretary directly referrlng to
the German Representatlve' actlvlties
In behalf of peace as late as July
2lst must come to you ss an evi
dentlv unwelcorn revelatlon, as it
Mr. Lioyd George and our nnlnfonned clvllization and you can believe that
iil-wishers would apparently Uke to i Austrla-Hungary robbed her of her
have it. Austria-Hungary's hlfltorlcal two precious jewels, usurplng her
Mission In the past has been one of'vislonary rights over Bosnia nd
preservlng the pecullarliles, the Herzegovina. Great as our ailmira
cuiture, the language of each of t tion is for American achlevements
her motley nationalities. The Dual on the Geld of practical Bdences,
Monarchy, I mlght say, embodies the
princlple ot how various races can
te kept together in a politlcal uulon
without lnterfering wlth thelr raclal
we have at tlme had oecnsiou to
be surprised at the some hat su er
ficial knowledge of European hlstory
tn the part of seeniingly well jn
dlfferences. "This prlncipl of po-iformed authors. Now, during these
litical assimilatlon" as our distin
gu'shed countrymaa, Count Albert
Apponyi, oxpreEEea himseit som time
ago-"remlnds one ot th Romans,
who eav the right of Roman cltizen
ship to the provincials and through
that procedure succeeded In creatlng
a streng Roman spirlt in the Gauls,
In Spaln and so on." Austria
Hungary's politlcal structtire offords
these Various nationalities a helght
ened degree et prutoctiou livm
lerrible months of war, more than
ever! This rnry be why snrne es
your representative Amerlcansi have
not been able to grasp this European
war-situation. Thls is also why you
seern constavtly to Ignor- Hungary
In speaking of the Monarchy as
Austria, although you should know
that the Monarchy Is dual, consisting
of two independent State!
01: course, we know that American
pride thernsehes on their bellet in
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n.tillntf rt fullv r uf th
If'SItl slfllll lf llll f)!p'tltll llOltt
the stilpnii'iit of igun anil niuiunl
tHrn. We Know It Is not fi'hnlfnlly
titiktvu'r! tu do . It. I th satt
that your , , tiiuiry 1 tli lnrt
tniipllfT of llils war-nniterlal, that
l'iiiti'Iri-tls of thousand of our own
initniirrants are practlcaily foreed to
trn Iht ir daily urend in tliis whole
salo lauiihier-iiinniisactur. that they
have lo supply their hanils' lahor in
the nianufacturlnR of thse Wt-apon
Intendcd for die küling of thelr own
l-mthers and couslns across the sea,
and last hüt not least, that your
Carnegie Institute has done nothin?
towartls the Inhibition of thls unnoly
busincss, Is, in fact, acqulescing in
it, es if It would have no concern
v.hatsoever in -it these are the
things which make one ponder and
lose faith in the slncerity of your
Institute's peace. Propaganda!
These are a few ideas which oc
curred to nie in readlng your
Pamphlet.
I do not wish you to believe that
I mean otTense in writing ycu. Noth
ing Is farther from my mlnd. I
assure you there is nothing personal
in my remarks to you, although I
naturally must resent some of your
unjustified remarks and slurs esst
upon my country and that ot our
allies. I am addresslng you thls
letter merely as a matter of duty
to my countrymen and to myself.
A neglect to refute attacks of this
bind made In public, gives sometimes
rise to misinterpretatlon.
Very truly yours,
ERNEST LUDWIG,
Consul for Austria-Hungary.
Dos Berbandpackchkn.
Das Verbandpäckchen, das jeder
der ins Feld ziehenden deutschen
Soldaten im Futter seineS Wajfen
rockes niit sich führt, wiegt nicht
ganz eine Unze, ist 3x1,8x0,75 Zoll
gros; und enthält in einer mit der
Äusschrift Faden abstreifen" Verse
henen und Von einem Verknoteten
Faden umschlungenen, wasserdichten
Zwirntiichhiille eine 13 Fich lange
und etwa 3 Zoll breite Mullbinde
aus weiszcm Sublimatmull. Etwa
10 Zoll Von ihrem äußeren Ende
entfernt sind drei Kompressen auS
rotem Sublimatmull so auf die in
besonderer Art gefaltete Binde auf
genäht, daß sie, ohne mit den Fin
gern berührt zu werden, durch An
fassen an der Binde auf die Wunde
gelegt werden können. Die innen
auf das Zwirntuch aufgeklebte Ge
brauchZaiiwcisung lautet: Noten
Verbandstoff und Wunde nie mit
den Fingern berühren. Mit beiden
Händen anfassen, wo rechts und
links Hier" steht die Hände
hochhalten stark auseinander zie
hcn. Noten Verbandstofs auf . die
Wunde legen. Binde umwickeln und
knoten.
Es lösjt sich nicht verkennen, das;
dieses kleine, uufcht'inlare Verband
väckchen schon recht vielen der tapfe
reu Feldgrauen" die schiihenSwerte
sten Diensie 13 erste Hilfe" bei
Venviindimsien geleistet, ja man
chein wvlil. sogar b'wlii ir.. Loben
gereitct hat.
- Das Aergere. Bekannter
Cyarn beurlaubten bayrischen Land
siurmmcinn): Na, und wie war's
denn in Flandern?
Bayer: Furchtbar!
Bekannter: Gelt, furchtbar anstren
gend?
Bal)r: Dös nit. aber alllveil hab'
i nichts als Wasser anschaun mü
sen!