GERMANY’S 1,300,000 DEAD.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 June 1918, Page 3

GERMANY’S 1,300,000 DEAD.

BAVARIAN SOCIALIST LEADER’S OUTBURST IN DIET. At a sitting of the Bavarian Diet, the Socialist leader, Herr Segitz, said: “We are lacking in coal, linen, clothing, boots and soap, and yet Ministers have declared that we have no shortage, and that everything is going well. Does the Minister believe he can deceive foreigners into believing our situation is so excellent? The' 1 masses of the people are becoming very sceptical about the Government’s promises. “How often have we not been promised grain and petroleum from Rumania when nothing has come? The Government talks of holding out as though it were quite an ordinary matter. Germany alone has already lost 1,300,000 dead in the war, and an equal number wholly or partially incapacitated for work. “Wc are confronted with a world famine, yet wc arc rejoicing every day when ships with provisions arc sunk because we hope it will force England to surrender. But after the war ships will be lacking to bring us corn. “Strikes to bring peace are proceeding at first in particular localities and particular industries, but there will be strikes over the whole country if the Government docs not regard these warning signals.. “The military commander of 'the Brandenburg is dealing with the strike in the old Prussian manner of brutality and stupidity, but Prussian conditions arc no longer a merely Prussian affairs. The Prussian question has become a German question, perhaps a German peril.’’