REVOLT INEVITABLE.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 September 1918, Page 7

REVOLT INEVITABLE.

GERMANS’ BROKEN MORALE. ANTI-WAR RIOTING. NEW YORK, September 17 A cable to the New York Tribune says that the German Government has been holding an investigation regarding the morale of the German people The inquiry resulted in the discovery that a crisis is rapidly approaching. Ludondorff is discredited. Hindenburg declared that the Germans would not endure the hardships of another winter and a campaign in the spring. Only the Entente Allies would be prepared to undergo that experience. The German commander at St. Mihiel. demured that a revolt in Germany was inevitable. The Berne correspondent of the Times reports that the women of Munich made a menacing demonstration against the continuance of the war. The police refused to suppress the demonstration and soldiers who were called out also refused to take action, and were immediately sent to the front. Reuter’s Amsterdam correspondent states that noisy' scenes occurred at sittings of the Berlin municipalities. The Socialists bitterly complained of the starvation rations, and one statement that it was time that the war ended was received with uproarious applause from the public galleries. The Socialist paper Vorwarts states that two-thirds of a secret committee on. electoral reform appointed by the Upper House of the Reichstag are sworn enemies of equal isuffrage, and the full House is proportionately antagonistic. Meanwhile the Socialists’ frame of mind is indicated by a party manifesto displayed in Vorwarts, protesting most strongly, in the name of the millions of uninfluential supporters, against the continuance of the electoral reform comedy and demanding the immediate dissolution of the Lower House. The manifesto proclaims that the people’s watchwords should be ‘ ‘ Away with the three-class Parliament’’; “Away with the Upper House” “Up with universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage;” and “Long live democracy and peace.”