GERMANY WITHIN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 5

GERMANY WITHIN

' "BOOSTING"THEWAR-LOAN INSPIRED HEROICS IN HUN NEWSPAPERS Br Telezraah—Press Association—Conyrisht Amsterdam, March/19i "With a view to stimulating'' subscriptions for the loan inspired articles ill the German newspapers emphasise that Germany is fighting tho great' war for existunco to a finish... The "Loknl Anzeiger" recalls Germany's > former announcement of her readiness to negotiate peace under certain conditions and thus terminate the bloodshed, and blames the enemy for shortsightedness in rejecting the offer. The paper adds: "The German leaders are determined to carry on the struggle with all available arms to a victorious ond." FOMENTING A HATRED OF ENGLAND PREPARED DIET FOR JUVENILE INTELLECTS. Amstertiant, March 19. Dr. Liebknecht, in his speech in the Prussian Diet, which ended in the sudden closing of the sitting, said that the Government was transforming schools, into training stables for war. Commissions had been given non-commis-sioned officers because the dre£s of the proletariat were" required for the ranks. Hatred'of England was foment, ed in the schools. The children were educated for war, submarines and poisoned bombs being their ideals.

SEEN THROUGH THE EYE OF AN AMBASSADOR . ECONOMIC STRAITS; WORSE THAN FINANCIAL. > Lisbon, March 19. . Dr. Sidonio Paes, _ late Minister •at Berlin, in an interview, said that in Germany the lack of men and; the hatred of England had become more intense daily; also thq' feeling against Russia, but not against France.. All classes in Germany desired peace. He was impressed with the serene certainty in France of the Allies' victory.. Germany's economic situation ,was far worse than the financial.

BRUTAL JAILERS OF RUHLEBEN

"CRUEL, VICIOUS, AND UNRELIABLE."

Sydney, March 20. Mr. J. Rupert Thompson, who,, has returned after a year in tile Ruhleben concentration camp, describes the Germans as cruel, vicious, and unreliable. The . prisoners were brutally treated, and for many months were not supplied with hot water. At the Witrtemburgei' camp there were six hundred tvphuß cases, and tlio only medical attention was from a few members of the British Red Cross. At Ruhleben an Australian society was formed, Mr. C. King, of New Zealand, being president.