NEUTRAL VIEW OF GERMANY.
A SWiIDE who was recently in Germany has published some interesting impressions of his visit. When asked what was the strongest impression ho had forme 1, he replied that what struck him most of all, outside .Berlin and other large cities, was the isolation of the people. “The people generally know nothing about anything.'” This isolation was due to the 1 censorship, which was very clever in keeping all in ignorance of everything that might give rise to inconvenient reflections. Anything more meagre than the German press could not he imagined. “Berlin,” he went on, “gave an indescribable impression of war-weariness.” Il w r as not only the civilian population, hut the soldiers also, wounded and unwounded, who had the appearance of being’ mentally and physically fatigued. A curious change had come over (he women. Instead of looking up as they did before to the stronger sex, they now have an air of fearlessness and conscious selfcontrol.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1555, 25 May 1916, Page 2
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161NEUTRAL VIEW OF GERMANY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1555, 25 May 1916, Page 2
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