GERMANY’S PLIGHT.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 September 1918, Page 2

GERMANY’S PLIGHT.

POLICE WHO REFUSE TO A€T AGAINST STRIKERS, Geneva. A wealthy Swiss merchant who has resided in Berlin for the past 12 . months and has just returned Clares in an interview published in the Tribune de Geneve that the economic situation in Germany grows worse every week. Only the rich, he says, can obtain sufficient food, and then only at an exorbitant price. The people are growing more and more angry, and strikes are of constant occurrence. The police more often than not are in sympathy with the strikers, and refuse to take action against them, so that it will be necessary to bring troops from the front if these disorders are to be repressed . The most frequent topics of conversation in Berlin, he says, are America’s army of a million men and Germany’s political and diplomatic failures in Russia. Many moderate Germans consider the war to be practically lost, and urge that Germany should make every effort to secure an immediate peace.