Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 43, 21 June 1915, Page 5

Germany

"WHAT IS THE MATTER?" AN INTERESTING SYNOPSIS. THE COUNTRY FROM WITHIN. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, June 20. "Neutral Observer" writes: S'Some Germans are beginning to wonder what is tlie matter with Germany: why she has no friends j why everyone is trying to stab her in the heart; and why she 5 cannot keep the peace with nations hitherto neutral. Germany today has so many kinds of hatred to cater for and enemies to damn -that she is not equal to the task. There are signs indicating that a more sober spirit is replacing the "Gott strafe" fever. Every day reveals more outspoken criticism of the foreign policy, and the man-in-the-street is beginning faintly to realise that there is a wide gulf between the German right and the right of other peoples. A well-defined cleavage is apparent over the Italian question. The Prussians feel that the new war does not concern them. The Bavarians are enthusiastic over the successes in Galicia, which have elevated Austria in German esteem and have closer cemented the union. Henceforth German officers will act officially in all parts of Austro-Hungary." THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE. U'fTiXD Pberi Ass 001 ATI ok. (Received 8.15 a.m.) Amsterdam, June 20. The President of the Upper House in the Prussian Diet said it had been repeatedly said that we must obtain a peace which safeguarded as against a repetition of the present attacks. But his belief was tthat no such peace was possible. "The greater we emerge from the war,'' he said, "the greater will be the endeavour of our adversaries to snatch away by a new coalition what we gained."