Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-09-27
CONDITIONS
IN GERMANY.


show that her resources are practi
cally inexhaustible, and no matter
how long the conflict may last she
will always be in a position to fur
nish every want to her people. De-
casionally, however, dispatches have
leaked through the censorship which
have shown that there is more OF
less uneasiness in the Fatherland as
the dark cloud shows no sign OF
breaking. 1t was confidently expected
at the outset that the war would
necessarily be short, as Germany had
planned to make smashes that would
soon bring her enemies to terms. The
, Teatons have, however, been disap-
pointed and the decided smashes
which during the past forty eight hour
have been made by the allies on the
western front, as well as the halts
occasioned German arms in Russia,
!, tend to show that the allies are not
ready to throw up Sheir hands. The
following dispatch from Berlin will
prove interesting reading at this time:
Three questions of the very gra-
vest Importance are at present oc-
cupying the minds of the German peo-
ple-money, soldiers and the econo-
mic situation.
The strongly patriotic Vossische
Zeitung states that while the three
war loans issued respectively on Au-
gust IA, 1914; December 2, 1914, and
March 20, 1915, asked for 10000 OOO,-
coo marks, only 13,O0O,000,0O0 were
. raised. Other papers frankly admit
that at present the countrv's financial
position is desperate.
A s,ewsefert Saisc<no@ to- be made
to raise new armies to make up for
the dreadful losses suffered in Po-
land and Russia. The three classes
of 1917, 1918 and 1919 are to be call
ed to the colorS at once.
At the recent convention of Prus-
sian bishops at Fulda, under the
presidency Of Archbishop Hartmann,
. of Cologne, the question: of how to
get new candidates for ecclesiastic Of
ficers was seriously discussed, as all
seminaries have been closed because
the students are at the front Forty
thousand Prussian teachers are also
IN the trenches, and of these no less
than 5000 have been killed or wound
ed.
Neighboring neutral countries have
sheen supplying Germany with all the
foodstuffs needed, but the prices have
gone up at an alarming rate, and it
is becoming evident that the moment
is drawing nearer when the neutrals
have nothing more to sell.
The Leipziger Neueste Nachrich
ten writes of the economic situation:
Unfortunately, there is no prospect
whatever that the prices of bread
and other articles of food will go
down even temporarily, though the
German harvest has been good. We
dread the misery the coming winter
will bring.
Until now our country population
has been able to walk barefooted, and
the need of clothing has not been felt
but what is to become of us during the
approaching winter, in spite of all
the heroic sacrifices we have made =?
During the past year the prices of all
the necessarieS of life have doubled
and the people who need food and
clothing most are almost penniless,
How is this going to end?"
The Berliner Tageblatt writes. GAS
result of the lack Of food during
the early part of the war, thousands
Of heads of cattle were slaughtered
throughout the country, more than
100000 pigs were also killed, and
breeding was ctcsslly stopped. We
are now about TO feel thu effect of
this famine and II seiw are approach
< ing"
Part of the German press also takes
g very gloomy vi"--- RI tna military
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