Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916. TROUBLE FOR GERMANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 91, 19 July 1916, Page 4

Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916. TROUBLE FOR GERMANY.

\ That there is great and growing internal trouble and deep dissatisfaction in Germany becomes daily more evident even, from the little that is allowed to filter through the curtain whidhjhides the real doings of internal .Genpany from the rest of the world. Wo hro-told of rioting and the slaughter (if civilians, of. mutinous soldiers who'refuse to lire on their fellow men and women, and of all the indications that an upheaval is at hand. Professor Haglund, a Swedish writer who was in Berlin last February, on his return to his own country stated: “An indescribable impression of warweariness has taken hold on the population of Berlin. Any looker-on is at once struck by it, and this war-w-eari-ness is apparent not only among the civil population of Berlin. The soldiers, wounded and unwounded, whom one sees make in the mass a concentrated impression of spiritual and physical fatigue.’’ If such war-weari-ness was manifest five months ago when the German people still hold ( hope that there was a chance of some victory falling to Germans arms, what must it be to-day with a shattered j navy and the armies on all fronts being steadily swept hack by the Allies’ j forces? Even at the time Professor | Haglund wrote, something of the

■truth regarding the success of the Russian offensive and the utter failure of Germany to break the French and British lines, was beginning to be known, and a growing feeling of re-; scntment against the authorities was i manifest. That the war may end in a great popular upheaval and the cle- ( position of the maniacal Hohenzollerns is thought by many to be quite on the cards. A well-known American, i\lr F. Cunliffe-Owcn, who until the] outbreak of the war, was understood i to be a personal friend of the Kaiser,' and who owing to his acquaintance with eminent Gcrman-American financiers and other, may fairly lay claim to be closely in touch with the real conditions in Germany, says the Kaiser’s failure to bring the present war to a successful issue, means the disappearance of the Hohenzollerns from among the reigning houses of the Old World. Neither in the Seven Years’ War, nor yet in the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the First Napoleon laid so heavy a hand upon Prussia-, were the people confronted by such appalling ruin as I hat- which now stares them in the face. This authority grtes on to state that the German people are heartily sick of. the war. Popular sentiment is in favor of its speedy termination, no matter at what cost. That intense, aversion from any further conj tinnance of the struggle prevails throughout the minor sovereign States of the German Empire, as well as in Austria, Hungary. Turkey, Bulgaria, and even Prussia, is an acI knowletiged fact., All the confidence I that prevailed in Germany in the ultimate victory of her cause and in the > invincibility of her army has disap-

pea rod. Tlio most cherished illusions of the people in this connection—illusions in which they have been reared from their earliest infancy —have been rudely shattered. They have reached the conclusion that'any further struggle is hopeless, and that in the circumstances the only tiling to he done is to secure an early peace on the least onerous terms. We are

also told by the writer above referred to that nowhere in Prussia—in fact’'

nowhere in Germany—is the Kai.ser the object of more profound resentment than in Berlin. Ho lias for the last twenty-five years been so convinced that sooner, or later he would have to face a popular revolution at Berlinthat he has reconstructed at an enormous, cost the, entire system of barracks in the metropolis, so as to facilitate, the movement of the picked troops which,' uiuii the beginning of the war, he always kept in Berlin to deal with any rising. When the Berliners' really do start out with “Death to the] Kaiser,” as they are alleged to have done in some places in Germany, the end will he very near.