Middletown transcript., 1917-10-20
GERMANY CRUMBLING

DLAINLY Germany is crumbhng IN
l ternally-liable, in fact, to COL
lapse altogether at any moment. Every
thing is going wrong. "The stars In
their courses fight against her upholy
cause.
Eleven Spanish American states have
broken with her, and the number is
constantly increasing.
The armies of the Allies on the west
ern battle line are steadily driving the
German armies backward, and inflicting
fearful losses indeed. her U-boat
basses on the Belgian coast are serious
lv threatened, and their loss will be
fatal to the submarine campaign so
much counted upon.
More and more all the land is feeling
the pinch of hunger and want; $4,000
children it is said have died Of hunger
in Berlin.
The people are daily growing more
restless and dissatisfied, while the
Reichstag and the Press are becoming
openly mutinous, boldly attacking the
Chancellors, those puppets of the Kaiser
- - ,ooly;po ~ da1l1dp and
placate the masses-tho with less and
less success, for they are very weary
of the barren diet of lies, lies, upon
which he has for three years been feed
ing them.
At last even the pan-Germanists who
till now have impudently insisted
upon annexations of territory and big
money indemnlties to reimburse Ger
MANY for the cost of her outrageous
assaults, are asking for peace without
annexations or indemnities
Americas food embargo is Tightening
every day, making critical situation
even more desperate.
After enduring with mistaken charity
and patience for two years the brutal
air massacres of the Germans, the
English an French in sheer defence are
making reprisals, and the German cities
are in panic in consequence, exclalm-
ing against "the brutality of bombing
defenceless cities etc, - as if they
only had not for two years been doing
Just that!
Mutiny broke out among the crews OF
five German batlieships; the commander
OF one was thrown overheard and drown
ed, and another was run off by the
mutineers Furiously angry the Kaiser
wanted to shoot every seventh sailor
but was persuaded to shoot only few.
The morale CT tie army is said to be
even worse This has been suspected
for sometime by the Allies on the west
ern front from the weaker defences the
German soldiers have latterly beer
making, and from their Who'll sale sur
renders, and the shocking condition q:
to food and raiment these prisoners dis
close
The latest Chancellor Mchaelis i
about to resign after his brief tenure
total failure Admiral Capelle, whom
Won Turpi!z chose rs his successor i!
the U-boat assa5sina tions, hes resigned
which is a confession that this terrorls
scheme 10 scare England is a failure
Won Turpitz way back last Apri
promised the people that in less tina
60 days England woulI be on her knees
Then it was sure to happen by Augu"
1st.
Alack for this oft repeated lie tn
has been heartening the fa:nting popu
lace, the decreased number Of boat
sunk proves what Capelle's re$ignati"
suggested, viz. that Germany has p!a
ed what she publicly declared was h..
last card which, must, must win-an
lost
But if nothing of all these interns
troubles and weakness were known, tn
single fact that Germany in her dc
mands for peace, now grown actua !
frantic. is constantly offering bette
and yet better terms, would of itsel
suggest the truth of her approachin
end.
Her armies backed by united popt
lar sentiment, the fat, cocksure popl
lace of years and 8 months ago, migt