Germany.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 47, 30 May 1916, Page 2

Germany.

THE COUNTRY FROM WITHIN. A NEUTRAL'S DESCRIPTION. [Umtbd Pbebb Association. 1 London' May 29. The Daily Chronicle's neutral correspondent's account proceeds to state that everywhere it is admitted that War with America must be averted, as if. would be a final and ciushing blow, tt is noticed that thrift is cairied to the most extreme details. In Austria the train lamps are burning oil from apple pips. An appeal is circulated asking •for the sunender of gold teeth and 'plates and stoppings for the duration jof the war. Dentists are forbidden the I use of gold. There is considerable agitation in Southern Germany for food. The dictators have power to override local laws, which prohibit exports to Bavaria and other States where stuffs are plentiful. Herr von Beth-nuum-Hoihveg has gone to Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe with a view to revising the food organisation.

Important negotiations are beginning in Berlin, to be finally decided after the war, as to the position of Alsace and Lorraine. The neutral learned I that the Germans had rebuilt the Liege [forts in concrete and iron. PRICE OF FOODSTUFFSf. A SOCIALIST'S PROTEST. Amsterdam, May 27. The Berlin Tageblatt says that the commu.ie of Friedian in Berlin has ! adopted stringent regulations, and :s numbering meat tickets to stop rioting at outcher's shops. There is a great shortage of eggs, which are sevenpem-e each and dealers are asking for the abolition of the egg trade monopoly. I In the Reichstag, Heir Ditman, a ' Socialist, made a violent protest against the military violating the mails the prohibiton. of free speecii, and arrests under the military law. He i. instanced cases where innocent people had been kept in gaol for fifteen months without trial. His speech made a great impression, and the C«o----vernment's reply will be made next week.

j THE POLICY OF HATE. GERMAN PAPER'S BLASPHEMY. I London, May 28. The Vorwaerts, in denying the abatement of the hatred campaign, quotes tlie following from a Munich pamphlet: "Let us have education in hatred, in love of hatred, organisation in hatred. Away with Jie immature fear of brutality and fanaticism! Let us adopt, politically, the motto "The more smacks the fewer kisses." We must not hesitate to declare blasphemously that to us is given faith, hope, an:l hatred, but the greatest of these is hatred." THE WAY OF THE CENSOR. London, May 27. The Daily Mail's Hague coirespondent says that the German censor is allowing many messages to pass emphasising Germany's willingness for peace, laud denouncing the Allies for being wickedly responsible for a continuance •of the war with the obvious purpose 'of influencing the United States and hinting that if President Wilson is not prompt Spain or Sweden will have the honor of stopping hostilities. The Cologne Gazette, commenting en Sir Edward Grey's speech, however, recognises that t-d war must continue until military events convince Britain that she has no more to gain.