Vaterland is in danger: my weiss is then for war.

So the notes of Arndt's "Deutsches Vaterland" were mingled with the cry of "Batthyanyi Lajos, Minister Praesident!"

These ships in American waters numbered 99, of an aggregate value of about $100,000,000, and included some of the finest vessels of the German merchant marine; for instance, the Vaterland, of 54,283 tons, valued at $8,000,000, and numerous other Atlantic liners.

And that man's motto is 'Vaterland oder Tod!'

Finally the originator of these rumours piously contradicts them all and announces, "lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein," in the following words: "Wolff's Bureau reports: There is absolutely no reason for anxiety on account of the alleged poisoning and infection of rivers, water supplies and springs which have been reported unauthoritatively from all parts of the country, and published in the Press.

A general staff who provided weather offices on wheels and printing offices on wheelsthis last for the setting up and striking off of small proclamations and ordersmight very well have bethought themselves that the soldier in the field would be all the fitter for the job before him if stayed with the familiar malts of the Vaterland.

When, on the evening of my first visit, a half dozen battalions of Landwehr, just whipped into shape, entrained for the front, the people threw bits of earth upon them, and, according to custom, stuck green twigs in the end of every Mauser barrel, that each man might carry a bit of the Vaterland with him on to the enemy's soil.

The sooner peace came, they felt, the better would be the strategic position of the Vaterland.

Vaterland?....

Wo man die deutsche Zunge spricht, Da ist das deutsche Vaterland.

From Ernst Moritz Arndt's (1779-1860) celebrated poem, Des Deutschen Vaterland.

Their strong love for their Vaterland in spite of their early transplantation is also very agreeable.

Some played cards, checkers, and dominoes, or talked and sang about "des Deutschen Vaterland."

Especially is this easily accomplished if actually written in the Vaterland, German typewriting machines being equipped with umlauts.

The ideals of the German nation were represented by Arndt's famous song, "Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?"

"I have never heard," he said, "a Prussian soldier singing, 'Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?'"