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little Vema kept up a continual mil "Mutter, ich habe Hanger!" She 
says every mother in Austria "listeaod to that cry — ell but the wives 
of officer a. She said she had seen soldiers, thsnselves wealc fared 
poor f ovA , seat had; to Vienna with heavy sacks of provisions, amy 
officers' provisions, for the officers families, I asked Why the 
soldiers did not themselves eat those provisions. They wore always 
under guard , five or six laden soldiers and a giaard with a gun. She 
same old story (like oar drafted men) nany oowed hy one. ( ;*hy sen ., 
will face death when they ar© told to hut will not face it to free 
thesis elves and their comrades is a perpetual riddle to mo . ) She 
|al oecn an officer's wife throw away fcsm a litile tainted when 
other people would have been only too glad to get it. She told se 
that as the soldiers came home at the sadden 'break down at the end 
of the war, many officers. wort shot. She seamed to think that 
needed explanation and espouse - and told how soldiers wore ©snouted 
for the smallest things— yom could not really blame fehe», when they 
had suffered so mush* 1 said 1 only blamed them for not having done 
it loss: before. Ehe coalman soldiers can put an end to war just that 
way whenever they will. She folly agreed, when the first residents 
marched out of Vienna her brother insisted on taking her over to 
sec them. Everyone was hurrahing ( "huzzah" gbo calls it}., bat she 
was ' heartbroken . k vonag soldier she oh her by the arm and cried 
"Warun sohrien Sic nioht Huzzah?" She said :t Bii acrmes Kind, du weis 
aioht wass 1st Zriag.' 1 This reginent was seat to the Ensaiaa front, 
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and every single man was hilled,' (1 recalled how the EmmalaHi had 
carried all before them in those first days of the war. } ghe news- 
moors said that the iea't sober Kaiser said that when -she loaves fell 
the war would he over. Some of the people were shouting this, She 
called oat "Ihen the crown falls the war will ho over." Someone 
shook her and her brother told hor to hv-.sh— that was all! Ifcil 
