New Britain herald., 1917-05-08
GERMANY CRACKING
 SAYS SWISS EDITOR
Silent But Powerful Under Cur
 rents at Work in Empire

Paris. May s.-The Gazette de Lau- same, which keeps an ear close to the ground for internal rumblings in Ger many, and is always we'll informed, publishes an editorial article. entitled ''The Awakening of Germany" which Is . striking indication of how ltt1e is known In the belligerent capitals con- corning the great silent currents which are steadily gaining force.
 The writer begins by stating that to whoever Is able to hear through walls or see through curtains, there. can he no doubt that the German Empire Is beginning to crack and that big Assures, which are perhaps still il- visible to the naked eye. arc already developing .f4
 The writer suggests that revolutions aer always prepared in silence, an example of which was the Ressian revolution. which was, little suspected even by the Cxar. He goes on:
 .1So far we only hear the voices shouting on the housetops. such as Lebknecht's, which is now effectually stopped Very significant are the speeches of Hoffman. the socialist leader in the Prussian chamber, and even more 50 the extraordinary violent articles of Hermann Wendell, who combats German methods in Alsace- Lorraine. Wendell spent his youth in Alsace, and came to understand the sufferings of the downtrodden people. and has since become their most fer vent champion. True, he enlisted for service in Belgium at the beginning of the war. but has since repented, having learned the truth This Is the same Wendell who as the youngest member of the Reichstag, caused a scandal year before war by shouting Viva Ia France!' during the session.
 Significant also is a daring cam paign waged by ay small paper, Die Action,' published by Franz Premfert, which, despite it's pitiless disclosures, has ecaped, censure by dexterous means."
 The writer says. 1t is surprising to see the patience of the German gov ernment regarding the press and puts it down to the consciousness of it's strength for which reason it allows much to be said, only surpressing what might actually materfalixe into deeds. He cites the fact that young revolutionary poet. Johannes R. Becher. created a sensation in Berlin uy A0~A NAsAA0 aS = oVAA 00 e NA0A0AAA poetic diatribe against 'the greatest general in existence meaning Hin denburg. 4 hook by him, entitled ITO Europe" has been bought by the in- tellectua1 set in Berlin. who evidently sympathize with his ideas. Accord ing to the writer all this proves that the people who guage the German evolutionary currents merely by we'll known publications ARch ass the Vor- warts and Simplicimlnus. arc very far from having sounded the depths of the current. The article ends thus: 1 Tt is by this apparent passivity and silence to the voices, louder than the cannon from Flanders to Alsace that the awakening of Germany is being prepared Today this Is the only way in which discontent of the thinking element in Germany is able to react. : :
 This article. published by one of the most authoritative papers in Europe, is thought here to be deeply significant, especially when taken in connection with Maximilian Harden's latest article ir Die Zukunft.