AFRAID OF WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1916, Page 5

AFRAID OF WOMEN.

BERLIN'S UNEASINESS, • 'j EVERYONE TALKING PEACE. ~ ''j i ' *'j - The starvation of Germany is the malt i topic of a letter which an English clergyman has received from a niece living at '"! The Hague. 1 J She begins with a few wordt Hbouf the ' Ford peace-cranks:— "The remnantß of the Ford expeditionary peaco corps are still here; 110 ln aU* •»; and a sorry bunch. They are all living i on Ford's money, and taking dab rides and drinks at his expenso.. They eveit say that in Stockholm some of the '3 'ladies' ordered gowns at his exptnte, and any one who had sympathetic could get a free meal. The journalist I. are mighty sick of the whole party. • "A friend of ours has just some Ittck ' r " from Germany, where she has a wounded • i husband, and came in contact with tH# ,< people and with the soldiers, as husband was recovering, and, liad ea|jr,J'i| work in a small garrison town. Oiot. 3 blockade is really beginning tt> tell, 4t IS last, and the people nre beginning' t<l; | feel the pinch dreadfully. ; "■< WOMEN SICK OF THE WAR,' '•Tliey really do not get enough to caV as there is nothing they can buy but K jfi bread and potatoes, and often one CMk'tWj not get the latter. There is realty ngth-' v ing inexpensive now. In a family j know, wliere there are two children (onp ; s very ill) they can only get a half ft liter a of milk a day (i.e.,: less than a pint).-s Butter is 3s a pound, and one liaa | wait in a queue for two hoyrs «omev",| times to get jib. '".IS "The women have had enough of it,' $1 and say they will not hold out much' Jj longer. Thousands of them demonstrate , m ed in the Unter den Linden recently. '!] Of course, the thing was hushed up, even | in Germany. Recently a lot of women"® outside a butter shop maltreated a po- «jj liceman and throw him into the wp | through the window and among the | cheeses. Can you imagine a Berlin '*.3 Schutzmann in such a dignified position! Jj They are getting afraid of the women ;J now. "The soldiers are sick of it all, and , complain bitterly of their treatment and ■ of their food. They none of them .want : to return to the front, where they toive .s dog's life and dog's food. . . . Etvary r one is talking of peaco. and no one talka of victories any more, though tile major' • ity think they will not be defeated. -'*-*! "One is sorry for the people and for >i the children. So many women complain' that the children wail in the Digit hunger, as thoy cannot get enough to eat. "We are asked to a Ford banquet to- -d night, but are not going. We dined iMt",; night with Sir Francis Oppenheimer, man who created the 1i.0.T. lands Overseas Trust), and the man

I suppose, is doing the moit to

things out of Germaay, He i« tWjni dously clever, and works like a dog."