"GERMANY MUST GIVE IN."

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 118, 19 May 1916, Page 3

"GERMANY MUST GIVE IN."

WHY SHE WILL CAPITULATE WITHIN A YEAIi.

"The iron ring of the British blockado, which is closing in with increasng force, makes one absolutely ronfident that Germany will not be able to hold out for more than a year, and that then she will/be forced to capitulate. ; ' This remarkable statement is made in the Petrograd newspaper, "Beitch." by M. Liakardopiilo, who, in order to obtain an answer to the question, ''ls Germany ruined?" Ims made a journey through Germany and Austria-Hun-gary. His revelations have produced a great impression in Eussia, and the Foreign Minister himself. M Sujsonoff, has had a long interview with him. M. Liakardopoulo says—"l have returned fully convinced That Germany will be beaten. In the first instance there, is in both countries at war with us a real and not merely apparent economical exhaustion. It is shown by a series of measures tending to itlmit the consumption of a number of articles, and the list of such articles is increasing every day. And all this notwithstanding that prices of commodities are till the time

increasing, and are already out of all proportion to the prices prevailing before the Avar. The requisitioning not only of foodstuffs but of metal, wool, rubber, textures, etc., has a tendency to make the country bare of these articles. There are no taxis or motor-ears cither in Berlin or other big towns, as the Government has prohibited the use of petrol for running cars, save on Government service. The hope of getting necessary produce from the East 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 of communications by road and sea. in a worse position than even Germany. I have taJked in Bucharest, on my way back to Eussia with many persons just returned from Constantinople and Asia Minor. I had an opportunity of reading letters from such places as Trebisond. OTi which the Germans put all their notes. The people are actually starving there. The proposed offensive against Egypt is nothing but German bluff. There are enough men in the Centra] Empire to fill the gaps in the army, but their number is strictly limited. The people, starving and deprived of the necessaries of life, are already beginning to cla.mour with great insistence for bread and peace. All illustrated postcards and flags sold for the New Year bore the inscription: 'Luck and peace in 1916.' It is- also; significant that the populace in Dresden are frankly tired of the war and disgusted with the Prussians, who, in their opinion, are responsible for it, and are quite openly expressing their indignation with. Prussian rule."