THE LAST STRAW

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 46, 17 November 1917, Page 7

THE LAST STRAW

WAR WEARINESS IN GERMANY,

It would appear from an article in the "Vossische Zeitung," of lJerliji, that there is more than a little war-weari-ness in Germany:— . We have accustomed ourselves to submit to tho deluge of regulations which for the last three yours have been uninterruptedly falling on our-heads, simply because the idea "to hold out" must rise superior to any other consideration. Yet even that has its limitations. Regulations which, generally speaking, are only too well calculated to add to tho difficulties of holding out can in no circumstances whatever be accepted in silence. This applies to the latest order, which is rendering the taking of a bath in a private house an impossibility. It is precisely at this season, when bathing is not only an act of cleanliness, but an attribute of tho nation's health, that the authorities, to save that fuel and gas which we happen to know is being woefully wasted in other quarters under the official noses, aro placing an embargo on tho public health by a prohibition of bathing, which is bound to produce sooner or later most lamentable conditions of disease and infection. Are we to stand in our tens of thousands for three or four hours waiting our turn outside the ■few'bath houses still as we have been doing before tho market stalls? Are women carrying infants to bo hustled or trampled to death in a mob of four'million unwashed Berliners? We solemnly adjure the Government to reflect very seriously ere they invite a condition of things so terrible, a state of disease and pestilence so dread as to cause all the other horrors of the war to pale beside it to utteV insignificance.