"GERMANY MUST GIVE IN."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 179, 2 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

"GERMANY MUST GIVE IN."

WHY SHE WILL CAPITULATE

WITHIN A YEAR

"The iron ring of the British blockade, which is closing in with increasing force, makes one absolutely confident that Germany will not be able to hold out for more than a year, and thatthen she will be forced to capitulate.''' This remarkable statement is made in • the Petrograd newspaper, "Leitch,'. by M. Liakardopulo. who, in order to* -obtain an answer to the question, "Is Germany ruined ?" lias made a journey through Germany and Austria-Hun-gary. His revelations have produced a great impression in Russia, and the Foreign Minister himself, M. Sazonoff, has had a long interview with him. M. Liakardopulo says : —" I have returned fully convinced that Germany will be beaten. In the first instance there is in both countries at w.:r with us a real . and not merely apparent economical exhaustion. It is shown by a series of measures tending to limit the • cnsuniption of a number of article*, «'nd the list of such articles is increasing every day. And a.l this notwithstanding that prices of commodities are all the time increasing, and are atready out of an proportion to the prices prevailing before the war. The requisitioning not only of foodstuffs but of metals, wool, rubber, textile", etc., has a teudency to make the country bare of tlies.o articles. There are no taxis or motor-cars either in Berlin or other big towns, as the Government has prohibited the us<., of petrol for running cars, save on Government service. The hope of getting ne.essary produce from the E.>st has .not been realised, for the East, from Bulgaria and Constantinople to the territory in the rear of the Turkish armies, is in consequence of the deficiency o : communications by road and s>a, in .1 worse position than oven Germany. 1 • have talked in Bucharest on my way back to Russia with many person* just returned from Coir~tantinopij end Ash Minor. I had an opportunity of reeding letter* from such pla es a* I'rr.iiizend. on which the German.", pit a!! their hope*. The p>ople are a.'ua'iy starving there. The propose:! offensive again'-*> Egvpt is nothing but Gorman bluff. There are enough men it; the Centra, lunpiio.*. to fill the gaps in the army, but their number is strictlv limited. The people, starving and deprived of the iieci"--aries of life. j>r-> already beginning to clamour with groat insistence fur bread and peace Al! illu-trated postcards and flags sold for the New Year Lire the iiwription : 'Luck and pc-nr-c in 191G.' ft, U a:-;.' significant, that the populace m Die* den r-.ro frankly tins! of the war and distrusted with the Prussian;, who, n tlifir opinion, are responsible for it, and are unite openly expressing theirindignation with l'n:.-sian rule "