GERMANY'S CRUMBLING MORALE.
POPULACE TURN ON IDOLS. BITTER DISILLUSIONMENT AWAITING THE HUNLAND. Received Oct. 18, 7.40 p.m. Paris, Oct. 17. The Matin states that all travellers from Germany corroborate the rapid crumbling morale of Germhny, owing to the certainty of defeat and the fear of invasion. Groups of soldiers traverse Berlin streets singing pacifist hymns and revolutionary couplets. Officers seek hiding places. Some pan-Germans tried • to demonstrate at the Hindenburg statue, but were dispersed by a hooting mob. The populace tore the base from the statue and destroyed the crown which the panGermans had placed there. Police interivcntion prevented the burning of the idol. Ludendorflf informed the Kaiser that the principal cause, of the military 5 ' reverses was mutiny. The divisions decline to obey orders. Soldiers assemble to discuss politics and commanders, even the Kaiser's favorites, agree that he must abdicate if his person is an obstacle to peace. The populace believes abdication will 'he sufficient to prevent the punishment of Germany. When the illusion is dispelled the depression will be terrible.— United 'Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1918, Page 5
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174GERMANY'S CRUMBLING MORALE. Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1918, Page 5
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