GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 May 1918, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

GERMANY'S PESSIMIST HUNT. LONDON, May 5. The correspondents of the Times at The Hague states that a reliable authority, who has returned from Germany gives a remarkable description of the authorities' intense anxiety to keep up the people spirits and prevent agitation by the workers. They visited the people’s homes and urged them to hold on. Disseminators of rumours of terrific army losses are sternly punished, and spies arc employed to hunt down pessimists. There is a constant search for illicit pamphlets, especially those relating to long hospital lists and the hopelessness of the attempt to beat the Allies. Another informant declares that the scenes in the German military hospital.? beggar description. Men bleed to death, owing to the lack of bandage* and tourniquets. The doctors, grown callous, are seen stepping over the bodies lying in pools of blood on the hospital floors. GERMANY’S BURDEN OF TAXATION. . AMSTERDAM, May 14. Owing to the insufficiency of revenue from indirect taxation, Germany proposes to levy a non-recurrent war time income tax, raising twelve hundred million marks.