GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1918, Page 5

GERMANY.

LOSS OF THE FLEET. ANTI-BRITISH FEELING IN PORTS. The Hague, Dee. 14. The Times' correspondent writes: Anti-British feeling in Hamburg and Bremen is fax stronger than in Berlin. Shipping interests bitterly discuss the loss of the fleet and the paralysis of trade. Hamburg harbor is half deserted and the streets are a dismal spectacle. Fears of extremist outbreaks are every, where visible in both towns and Bremen is deeply disturbed. AntiRoyalist children sing a satirical version of the Christinas anthem, which runs:

"The Kaiser's done and has to flee, Augusta's out to cadge for eggs, Willy's turning table legs." CRITICAL POSITION. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN. London, Dec. 14. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express interviewed Herr Ebert, who said the problem of political development was inseparable from the food question. They inherited the political and economic breakdown. The chances of their pulling through were stated over-favorably, especially in 1918, in order to bluff tho enemy. Tho supplies quoted in the statistics frequently existed only on paper. The surrender of trucks and locomotives and the lack of coal made transport difficult and brought such conditions that the Government could not guarantee the food supply, therefore it could not indefinitely maintain order. The Government was bound to depend largely upon the political intelligence of its former enemies. What would be the position if Berlin became the centre of the Bolsheviks' power? They would welcome an invasion which would organise politics and increase the food supply.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.