Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-11-14
AXE 20 per cent Of everything.

take 70 per cent of everything.
d the other hand il seems probable
from all | near that an even half of all
outstanding war loans viii be nullified.
The seventh viii safer exactly as the first
and the first a. the seventh. Fifty per
cent will he repaid and the other fifty per
cent will either be cancelled or will merely
continue to pay intrest-will be a sort of
perpetual investment, the capital for which
cannot be realized.
As surely a. anything can be- predicted
there will be in the central power. A series
of laws ~forhidding emigration. And in
anticipation Of them countless Germans
today are talking about ways and means
OF getting away after the war. South and
North America, and peculiarly enough
New ealand and Australia. are the Ravens
to which they speak of fleeing. The first
German ship that lands in America after
hostilities will leave 30 per cent o fits crew
behind.
1T j. becoming clearer and clearer to
Germans every day that NIL the talk that
has gone the rounds about a Central En-
rope after the model of Professor Maui
mann and others will he out ut the qucs-
ton.
Contrary To the belief that seems TO be
almost universal outside of Germany, |
really believe that n-Germanism j. on
the decrease rather than the increase
among the masses OF the people, and this
despite the increased noise about IT every
where IN Germany and the intensive way in
which il l. being encouraged. The reason
for this j, that more and more the German
, people are coming TO realize what a catas-
trophe il will be tor them after the war
l. over ii they are hated in all the world.
Pan-GermaniSm. they are coming TO feel,
j. likely 10 intensity the feeling against
them, and thereby make their economic
struggle in the future more difficult"
He then touched briefly on Au>tro-Ger-
MIN relations and cautioned against any
hope that Austria will fall away from her
big ally. for, he explained, she l. too de-
pendant financially and militarily. To be
able 10 shake loose. much a she might like
10 do %. The German military authori-
ties see 10 II that German soldiers are in
tcrninglcd with Austrian troops not only
10 spur them on in fighting bat also 10
prevent their quitting.
Regarding the naval and military sit
nation he told Of mutinic~ aboard battle
ships A. limited ut by Won capable. The
men had, he said. di,mounted guns and
thrown them overheard. had assaulted Of
ticers and refused TO obey orders, III the
hope of Gripping the German navy and
bringing about a peace of desperation IN
that way. The mutinou- forces, however.
had not been large or strong enough to ac-
compli-h much. and had been put down.
Most Of them were shot. Others in excep-
tional eases had been put hack into service
on their promise 10 be good.
This spirit. he confined, extended To the
army olsa, famed 10 4 flame occasionally
by sectional jealousy and dislike. Thus he
said he knew taht miniature battles had
been fought between Bavarian and Prus-
sian troops, and that certain troops on the
east front had on one occasion muiinied
and declared in favor of marching on Ber-
lin rather than Petroerad. Naturally all
news about these and similar clashes had
been carefully suppressed and leaked out
only when the soldiers returned or wrote
home. IN the same way hat sailors in
Hamburg and kiel spread the first reports
Of the mutinieS aboard the Sims.