WAR-WEARY NATION

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 November 1917, Page 3

WAR-WEARY NATION

n The attitude of the German people towards the war was recently described. in the London Times by " a competent » neutral observer," who has long resident gff in Germany. He wrote: Germany is ■I tired of the war —there is no question about that. In spite of themselves the long ardently for peace. One ears nothing more of the lusj-df^cbn'-^ but I must sav^-ifeii I never anybody in .Gel-many say, "We give it up." -"I do not know what imagine will be the end of BKtffr. and—l Relieve they do not know thjkpaei^-Rs. They . are depressed, and it be otherwise with the frightful losses they have suffered? I have never heard terms of reproach associated with the name of the Kaiser, any more than those of the statesmen of lower rank, although a'general democratic, if not socialistic, spirit has penetrated the people* I have heard dignified men of high position say that all this fuss about princes must be done away with and would not admit of so much money being ■wasted in this way any more. The worst is expected of the demands .which \ the people, especially the soldiers return- , ing from the field, will make after war. There is no question of the prevalence of a revolutionary spirit in Germany, but that there is sometimes tension here and there is a fact. England must console herself for losing first place in the matter of being hated. America now stands at the top. The explanation of the intervention of America is generally this—America was afraid that England would not win and was then alarmed about her munition orders. That is why she came in; but also because she wanted to sit at the green table when

the peace negotiations came on.