Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-18

ished materials anywhere in the Wy194
on the same terms as any other ueo4Ws
Every indication points to proh411e
ton Of perhaps half the war loan tetais
after the war. Even the percentage or
property to be confiscated is being t4Iks
ed of, and 1t seems probable that the
government will take 20 per cent o.
everything.
May Repudiate Half Of Debt.
~on the other hand. It seems probable
from all hear that an even half OF al
outstanding war loans will be nulliAe6
The seventh will suffer exactly a. the
first and the first as the seventh. F7fty
per cent will be repaid, and the other
50 per cent will either be Cancelled or
will merely continue to pay irfteresc-
VIII be a sort Of perpetual investmenss
the capital for which cannot be realised.
AS surely as anything can be prey
dicted, there will be In the central
powers a series of laws forbidding emf-
grafton. And in anticipation OF them
about ways and means of getting Away
after the war. South and North Amer-
lea, and peculiarly enough New -ZoA~
land and Australia, are the haven4 %
German ship that lands in America
after hostilities will leave 80 per cent
of its crew behind
at is becoming clearer and clearer I'd
Germans every day that all the talk
that has gone the rounds about . ecens
trail Europe" after the model Of Prof
Naumann and others. will be out q the
question.
CONTRARY to the belief that scans -
be almost universal outside OF Ger.
manism Is on the decrease rather than
the increase among the masses OF the
people. and this despite the increeee4
noise about 1t everywhere In Germany
being encouraged. The reason for this
is that more and more the German peo>
pie are coming to realize what . ca&ass
trophe 1t will be for them after tie
world. Pan-Germanism. they are conaS
ing to feel, Is likely to intensity tho
feeling against them, and thereby mako
their economic struggle in the future
more difilcu1t."
Says Austria Cannot Quit. .
He then touched briefly on Austrol
any hope that Austria will fall away
from her big ally, for. he explained. she
is too dependent financially and mfit~
tarily to be able to shake loose. much
military authorities see to It that Ger.
man soldiers are intermfngled with
Austrian troops not only to spur them
on in fighting but also to prevent their
quitting.
Regarding the naval and military
situation. he told Of mutinies aboard
battleships as limited at by Won CapeIIe.
The men had. he said. dismounted guns
and thrown them overheard, had a..
saulted officers and refused to obe3
orders. in the hope of Gripping the
German navy and bringing about 4
peace of desperation in that way. ThS
mutinous 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.
This spirit. he continued, extended to
the army also, famed to q flame 90.
casionally by sectional jealousy and dis
like. Thus, he said. he knew thai
miniature battles had ben Fought be.
tween Bavarian and Prussian troops
and that certain troops on the east
front had on one OCCASION mutinied ard
declared in favor Of marching on Berr
lin rather than Petrograd. Naturally
Ill 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 VA
that sailors In Hamburg ana EII
spread the Arst reports of the mutindes
ehaaD6. the ghips. -,