TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1915-04-23
OPTIMISM GREA'
THAN EVER
GERMAN
II Coming Harvest sould Be Failure
Empire Has Enough Supplies to
Last Two Years.

Last Two Years.
New Lork, April. Conditions in
Germany point to determination to
carry on the war indefinitely, although
the truth is not permitted by the on.
thorities TO reach this country, accord
ing to Dr. Karl Connell OF 45 West
Fiftieth street, vino has just returned
IRON six months tour Of Europe,
says the New York Herald.
DR.. connell with six other surgeons,
went to Paris with Mrs Harry Payne
Whitney on Nov. and served In the
American ambulance in Paris. Later
he served in the hospitals at JuilIy and
soissons, and early this year he made
a long trip through Germany, Austria
and Hungary, studying the hospital
methods and incidentally observing so
cial and economic conditions in sbose
countries as q result OF the war.
German Machine Wonderful.
Conditions in many OF the sections
through which | passed are terrible" /,
ht said. The German military machine
is a wonderful and terrifying thing.
and it cannot he battered 10 pieces
overnight. The economical efficiency
OF the Germans is amazing, and this l.
an important factor in the present war
with which her Toes must reckon.
When I was in Heidelberg, where
thousands of wounded Prussians rs
well as Frcnchmen are being cared for,
observed that the eonvalescents are
not permitted to idle away their time.
saw one armed men writing with
tlieir remaining hand. and they were
actually studying stenography and
typcwritine. They are set at work
ulaking useful little things and do not
spend their time swapping stories ~
Is the rule In other military hospitals.
Denies Germans Face Famine.
There is deep hatred among the
Germans for The English, but not for
the French. In the German hospitsls
in which freneh soldiers were being
treated / observed that they received
the kindcst treatment. One German
physician told me that the Germans
regarded the French as brothers AMI
they sympatlized with them. They do
not really regard them as their foe.
The German nation looks upon England
as its only Zoe, and you may be sure
that this hatred is quite bitter
DR.. Connell .sii that when he was In
Berlin he talked with many German
army men, all Of whom assured Inn
that the raj purpose Of the present
war was not 10 defeat France so much
as il va. to put England ont OF bust
ness. lie said that the optimism o.
the Germans was so pronounced that
there already is talk Of what viii b.
done BY the Pr,issians after they enter
London. which they expect to do with
in a few months at the most.
Il am informed that Germany has
food enough 70 last for two years. even
II the coming crops should be . fail
ure", said DR.. conneli I'm every place
where stayed / found every available
foot al land under cultivation, private
gardens, yards Of factories and even
the public parks being devoted TO farm.
ing purposes. The factories are all
busy, and the workingmen are getting
better wages now than they received
before the war began. In many places
you would not know that the country
was at war from external signs, eondi-
tions generally being normal"
Foresees Russian Defeat.
DR.. Cornell said the Russian invasion
OF Hungary was bound to have an i'm.
portant effect upon the duration Of the
var and that il the Russians were pre-.
vented from advancing during the next
few week, they probably would be
driven back ultimately. He said chs
Russian victory At Przsmysi was IN
some respects harmful 10 the allies in
that it released large force OF msh
who now are eontesting the Russian
advance at every step.
There was intense suffering fron!
cold among the troops in the carpa
said the surgeon. II saw tho'i-
sands OF soldiers whose hands and feet
were frozen, and The surgeons wero
kept busy amphtating these membsrs.
Strangely enough, ] did not hear a
word Of complaint from any one re.
garding the war. The women Of Aus.
tria aud Hungary seem to be content,
and they do not create scene when
they receive the news that their hns-
bands or sons have fallen in battle.
There is much destitufion. and the wo.
men. who are the greatest sufferers,
display remarkable hefoisn"
Regarding the report that typhus was
alarnsingly among the troops
along the eastern battle fronts. DR..
connell said Serbia was in a shocking
state a. a result Of the visitation Of
the plague. He did not think, he said,