Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-12-13
GERMANY MUST
QUIT BY SPRING
Collapse Is Predicted by Ameri.
can VINO Recently escaped
From County.
PEOPLE SUFFERING ACUTElY
internal Conditions Far Worse Than
Pietured-Sone Mar Loans to Be
RePudiated-Austria 10 Un-
able to Break Away.


Repudlated-Austria 10 Un-
able to Break Away.
Zur.th.-An American ci;iycl 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 hus worked with Germans, dwelt
with them, been one Of them, and has
acquired an Intimate knowledge OF
conditions existing In Germany.
In his opinion Germany Is suffering
acutely now, and dissatisfaction and
worse reicn IL certsin stlata of her
;..IIiy and navy. Recent Agiin.Gs Gp-
risings have had 10 be- sternly re-
pressed aud the nuiin,,:s shOt.
Thoughtful Germany, he thinks COM
priSlng men Of the BALM type, Is des-
perately eager for peace, and secretly
engpr to end the war before America
has been utterly alienated.
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, "ls far worse than
any one on the outside realizes, In 30
critical that FOR one look for n
break, q collapse. next spring or late
In the winter. Nor are the good crops
that one hears boasts about every once
In 80 often going to change the situa-
ton materially.
Throughout the German people
there Is what amounts TO hatred Of
America, and this hatred has bstn
carefully concentrated 90 President
Wilson. because II 10 easier to hate
a man than q nstion-especisliy q M.
ton that Is the home Of pretty nearly
every ones relative.
D. Mot hats America.
But the big men Of Gepmsny. the
mso who have to look ahead and
guide the empire after the wsr, do not
bate America. They feet too keenly
that they need America, and they
would like TO stem the tide Of hate be-
fore II becomes mutual and the United
States Ia slisnsted, perhaps for all
time.
"They know that after the war there
IL only one country In the world where
they can get the money they win need,
America, and they are worrying a-plen-
ty nowadays.
"They. and all Germany, want In
creasingly a peace that shall specify,
among other things, the right 10 pur'
chase raw as we'll as finished materials
anywhere In the world on the same
terms as any other nation.
Every indication points to probable
confscatIon OF property and repudIa'
ton Of perhaps half the war loans az
ter the war. Even the percentage OF
property 10 be conhscsted is beiBs
talked Of, and IL seems probable that
the government will take 20 per cent
OF everything.
To NullIfy War Loans
"On the other hand II seems prob
able from NIL hear that an even hnft
~ all outstanding war loans will ID
nullifled. Fifty per cent viii be repaid
and the other 20 per cen, will either
he cancelled or will merely continue Il
pay interest-wlll be n sort ~ perptt
ual investment. the capital for wbIci
cannot he realized.
As surely as anything ran be pre-
dlcted there viii be In the central pow
ere a series Of laws forhlddIng emigra
tlon, and In anticipation of them count
, less Germans today are talking abou
ways and means Of getting away az
ter thu w'r. The first German shlI
that lands In America after hostllitiei
2 will leave 20 per cent OF It's crew be
! hind.
at Is becoming clearer and cleare
!, Ia Germans every day that all N,
+. Talk that has gone the rounds shout |
: Central Europe after the model q
A Professor Nnumnnn and others viii b.
out Of the question.
/. Contrary To the belief that seem
/ 10 be- almost universal outside ~ Ger
. many. | really believe that pau.Gcr
/ mnniSm Is on the decrease among m
}. masses ~ the people, and this despit
> the Increased noise about II cyery
/. where In Germany and the ihteEslv
v way In which II II being encouraged
The reason for this Is that more AN
more the German people are cmaiG
;, 10 realize what q catastrophe II VI,
'. be- fur them after the war T. oyt.
!, they ere hated In all the world. los
: Gornnnism. they IRE coming 10 fc,
|, II llk,ly tu intensity the feeling HgNins
]. ihcm aud thereby make their econ
:, omlc struggle In the future more dlh
!. cult"
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