The Big Sandy news., 1917-12-21
GERMANY MUST
QUIT BY Spring
Collapse Is Predicted by Amorl-
oan Who Recently Escaped
From Country.
PEOPLE SUFFERING ACUTElY
internal Conditions Far Worse Than
Piotured-some War Loans to De
RepudIated-Austrla 10 un-
able to Break Away.

Zurich.-An American citizen has
arrived here with an amazing story Of
internal conditions in Germany.
Since war was declared this man.
whose identity Is kept secret at his
own request, has lived In Germany.
He has worked with Germans. dwelt
with them, been one of them, apd has
acquired an Intimate knowledge of
conditions existing In Germany.
In his opinion Germany is suffering
acutely now, and dissatisfaction and
worse reign In certain strata of her
army and navy. Recent mutinous up
risings have had to be sternly re-
pressed and the mutineers shot.
Thoughtful Germany. he thinks COM
prising men Of the Ballin type. is des-
perately eager for peace, and secretly
eager to end the war before America
has been utterly allenated.
Feared Army Service.
This man left Germany early In oc-
tober because he had reason to fear
that he was to be impressed for mill
tary service.
"The economic situation In Ger
many" he says, "Is Ser worse than
any one on the outside realizes, is so
critical that for one look for a
break, collapse, next spring or late
In the winter. Nor are the good crops
that one hears boasts about every once
In so often going to change the situa-
ton materially.
Throughout the German people
there is what amounts to hatred OF
America, and this hatred has been
concentrated on President
Wilson, because 1t is easier to hate
a man than a natlon-especlaily ma
tion that is the home OF pretty nearly
every ones relative.
Do Not Hate America.
but the big men OF Germany. the
men who have to look ahead and
guide the empire after the war. do not
hate America. They feel too keenly
that they need America. and they
would like 70 stem the tide OF hate be-
ore II becomes mutual and the United
States is alienated. perhaps for all
ime.
They know that after the war there
s only one country IN the world where
hey can get the money they will need,
Imerica, and they are worrying a-plen-
' nowadays.
They, and all Germany, want In
reasingiy a peace that shall specify.
mong other things, the right to pur- !
base raw as well as finished materials
nywhere In the world on the same
rrms ~ any other nation.
Every Indication points to probable
snhscaticn Of property and repudia- 3
On q perhaps half the war loans af. !
= ne war. Even the percentaea Of
rcperty 70 BE- confscated Is being i.
,Iksd Of, and II seems probable that '
= government viii take 20 per cent r
: everything. 90 u
TO Nulllfy War Lsans.
-on the other hand, It seams Prob u
Die from an ! hear that an even half =
an outstanding war loans vim Be :
illinsd. 1ifty pr cent viii b. repaid.
ID The other % per cent win either
eaneslpd Or win merely continus % :,
y intsrsPt-wtll be q sort Of psrpet.
Il Investment. the capital for vifeh
nnot b realised. b
As surely as anything can b. pre-. pl
stsd there win be in the central pow. .
8 series OF laws forbidding smirra- =
IA, and m anticipation Of than count
= Germans today are talking about
" md means Of getting away AZ.
Z the, wnF.i The first German ehiuI