The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-08
IS GERMANY FACING RUIN? Great Financial Crash Threatened. EXPANSION IS TOO RAPID Reckless 0verproduction in Home
 Industries. socialist Party Is strengthened and There Are Many Recruits To Red Flag Army-Gossip
 of Europe.
 
nx wAIrrR puNKIRK.

po~,,n Sent 7-Germany is threat ened with great nnaAs s~or, caused by the natural reaction 1I the inflated trade boom or the iast LeM wears, and it is likely that tne Inoney s market will suffer a totai coiiapso in the near future. .,.,, alton is the too rapid expansion Wnich has been the feature of German com merce in recent years, the government reckless financial policy, and the iav- ish investment of German capitai in American banking houses.
 Russian trade has been the object 70 which German enterprise has mainly been directed In too lavish manner Germany has practically built up ene notwithstanding industries Of Russia. and has created the most important oI the Russian manufacturing cities hke Lodz where trade has been ruineu py the revolutionary strikes and massa- erss. This town, owing it's existence 10 German capital, was before the revoiu- lion. one of. the greatest industrial centers of Russia, but the capital sunk in Its development by German Dnah- oiers has been swallowed up by the strikes and disorders
 Tn sCermanys home industries there has been reckless over-production ana consequent huge losses. Exports have Increased enormously in bulk wftnout correspondingfy increased returns.
 Tn high finance the same excess or activity has brought serious conse- ouences. The German government has hser so reckless in It's financial policy fhat 1t has nearly doubled the national debt in the last ten years. The Budget shows a deficit every year, fn4 spite or the high taxation which the govern ment is compelled to impose. The mu- niciualitias have followed the example ~a~R eDEaW aVH borrowed at high interest enormous sums for their various ownership
 This state of things is daily strength enine the sociaIistic party in Germany. The evils of capitalism and nilitarism are so strikingly shown by the pres ent financial situation that thousands of German subjects. hitherto loyal to the Kaiser. are joining the Red Flag armya
 For Insulting Kaiser.
 For insulting the Kaiser Tn lSV4' Hans Kruger. a butcher. has just been genfenced to two months imprisonment. He would have escaped punishment al- together for his "Majestatsbelie- dfgunx'' had not a former friend, who had since conceived an enmity for him. betrayed him to the police.
 At Kruger's trial. which caused some Ou, been drunk when he uttered the disre- gpectful words about tho Kaiser. lie was nevertheless. sentenced to two months Imprisonment and his hard ease has won him much sympathy.
 Outlaws in Forests.
 'Srhe 'Lesniye bratya," or forest brothers" who terrOTized the Baltic provinces a year ago have commenced their depredations. The forests around Riga are again infested with outlaws. who thunder and murder at will; and oc- easionaIIy descend on loyal villages and wreck sanguinary vengeance.
 The hero of these outlaws te Johann Ugrun, a Lett who suffered torture at the hands of tho Riga police. UErun. an uncouth. red haired monster, whose body shows traces of terrible suffer- ing. has already Killed four adherents of the government, and threatens that he will kill a hundred before he Ia caught.
 Among his followers are women and girls, whose husbands have fallen in the fight with the autocracy. The whole gang goes almost naked, but well armed, the men having Winchester ri- fies
 Ugrun made desperate attempt to