WHY GERMANY SURRENDERED.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 December 1918, Page 4

WHY GERMANY SURRENDERED.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Prior to August, 150 German submarines and seven Austrian submarines were sunk. The Germans then had built 331 submarines, but on August Ist only 110 were available for operations. Switzerland, on Germany’s behalf, urged the United States to hasten the Peace Conference because of the fear of famine in Germany. Mr Gibbs writes: A -.stranger gets the startling impression of the inhabitants of the Rhine towns that they are not suffering hardships, but are living comfortably. Closer inquiry shows that this is merely superficial, due to the inequality of the conditions of the rich and poor. Moreover, the Germans in their pride camouflage their miseries, but the hunger wolf is at the doors of the poorer houses, -where there is hideous stinting and scraping for bare necessities, resulting in working women being drained of vitality and living in a state of semi-starvation. Mr Gibbs received a letter from an Englishman married to a Hanoverian. She de dares that the people are on the verge of starvation, owing to the lack of food. There is no milk, tea, coffee, bacon, eggs, or fish. 1 Mr Gibbs visited an ipfants ’ creche at Cologne. The lady superintendent ■wept because the children were sickening, owing to hunger. She declared that many of their mothers fainted -at work.