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On our arrival "schnapps" before the feast had evidently been too much for them, and ere dinner was over they were all to use a mild expression overcome. We left them at midnight to go on board our steamer, embracing each other and singing "Die Wacht am Rhein" at the top of their voice a performance hardly appreciated, I should imagine, by the occupants of the adjoining bungalows.

It's 'Der Wacht am Rhein." "All right, sir! All right. Now!"

A second witness had heard Oberlies say he hoped the German submarines would sink a few troopships; that would frighten the Americans and teach them to stay at home and mind their own business. A third complained that on Sunday afternoons the old man sat on his front porch and played Die Wacht am Rhein on a slide-trombone, to the great annoyance of his neighbours.

We shall have a nice supper up there; but if you will grant us one favour the illusion will be perfect give us your halberdier to wait on our table. "That hits the boss's antiology hobby just right. 'Sure, says he, 'dot vill be fine. Und der orchestra shall blay "Die Wacht am Rhein" all der time. And he goes over and tells the halberdier to go upstairs and hustle the grub at the swells' table.

While Paris is frantically shouting A Berlin!, while all Germany is singing and meaning Die Wacht am Rhein, Moltke's order goes forth into the towns and villages of the Fatherland for the mobilisation of the Reserves. Hans was singing Die Wacht am Rhein last night over his beer; but there is little heart for song left in him as he looks from that paper on the deal table into Gretchen's face.

Lies and the snobbish ridicule with which our magazines and papers have been full, run off men like these like water off a duck. These men are in earnest. They have work to do. No one who has heard them singing the "Wacht am Rhein" through the starlight of garrisoned towns all the way from the Channel to the Carpathians, will talk of their being "stolid"; but they have, it is true, no coltishness.

Two wireless messages addressed to J. Bruce Ismay, president of the International Mercantile Marine Company, were received on April 21st at the offices of the White Star Line from the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, via Cape Race, one of which reported that the steamship Rhein had sighted bodies near the scene of the Titanic wreck.

The only difference between the two divisions of what is now described as the "split camp" is that whereas the true Britishers are free to sing "Rule, Britannia," "God Save the King," and other patriotic songs, the traitors have to while away their time singing "Die Wacht am Rhein," "Deutschland Uber Alles," and other German jingo melodies.

He threaded his way through groups of infantry, narrowly escaped a collision with three drunken soldiers, who were singing "Die Wacht am Rhein" with laborious unction, skirted the park of ammunition waggons, and reached the main entrance.

They cleared the pavements and galloped up the promenade. Again the cry echoed 'Down with war! and as answer came 'die Wacht am Rhein. But it was some considerable time before the struggle ceased to surge to and fro." Thus the great Socialist-International-Pacifist movement, with four and a quarter million German voters behind it, fizzled out on the pavements of Unter den Linden.