The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1917-11-14
GERMANY LOOKS TO AMERICA FOR
FINANCES AFTER WAR IS OVER
THE First German Ship Landing in America, Aft
er HostiIities, Will Leave SO Per Cent of It's
Grew Behind, Asserts This Patriot-Austria
Will Stick to Kaiser William

''On the other hand it seems prob
able from all | hear that an even half
OF all the outstanding war loans will
be nullified. The seventh Will suffer
exactly as the first and the first as
the seventh. Fifty per cent. viii be
repaid, and the other fifty per cent
w1n either be cancelled or will merely
continue to pay interest-will be SORT
of perpetual investment, the capital
for which cannot be realized.
Expect Many Immigrants.
GAS surely as anything can be pre-
dicted there will be in the Central
Powers a series of laws forbidding
emigration. And in anticipation of
them countless Germans today are
talking about ways and means of gett-
ing away at ter the war. South and
North America, and peculiarly enough
New Zealand and Australia, are the
havens to which they speak of fleeing.
The first German ship that lands in
America after hostilities will leave
fifty per cent. of it's crew behind
''lt is becoming clearer and clearer
to Germans every day that ali the talk
that has gene tie counts about 8
central Ea--o..e ;sft+a4~ ge model of
Professor Naumana am, others will be
out of the question.
Contrary to the belief that seems
to be almost universal outside of Ger
many, | really believe that Pan-Ger-
manism is on the decrease rather than
the increase among the masses of the
people, and this despite the increased
no / 10,
and the intensive way in which it is
being encouraged. The reason for this
is that more and more the German
people are coming to realize what a
stastrophe it VIII be for them after
the war Is over if they are hated in
all the world Pan~Americanism, they
are coming to feel, is likely to inten-
sify the feeling against them, and
thereby make their economic struggle
in the future more difficult"
Austria viii Stick.
He then touched briefly on Austro-
German relations and cautioned
against any hope that Austria will
fall away from her big ally, for, he ex-
planned, she is too dependent financial
ly and n1ilitariIy, to be able to shake
loose, much as she might like to do So
The German military authorities see
to it that German soldiers are inter
mingled with Austrian troops not only
to spur them on in fighting but also
to prevent their quitting.
Regarding the naval and military
sit lation he told of mutinies aboard
battleships as limited at by Won Cap
I,,,. L., ! !
ed suns and thrown them overheard,
Lad assaulted officers and refused to
obey orders, IN the hope of crippling
the German navy and bringing about
Il peace of desperation in that way.
The rlutinous forces, however, had
not been large or strong enough to
accomplish much, and had been put
down. Most of them were shot, others
in exceptional cases had been put back
into service on their promise to be
good.
The spirit, he continued, extended to
the army also, famed to a fame occa-
sionally by sectional jealousy and dis
like. Thus he said he knew that min
iature battles had been fought between
Bavarian and Prussian troops. and
that certain troops on the east front
had on one occasion mutinied and de-
clared in favor Of marching on Berlin
rather than Petrograd. Naturally all
news about these and similar clashes
had been carefully suppressed and
leaked out only when the soldiers re-
turned or wrote home, in the same way
that sailors in Hamburg and Kiel
spread the first reports of the mutinies
board the ships.