The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-07
GIVEN OF SITUATION
 IN GERMANY Expert Says That the Nor ale of the People is
 at a Very Low
 Ebb Now
FOOD IS NOT LACKING
Military Demands For Mu- nltions Also, He Says, Will Be Met Some
 Time

BUS HUN, Dec. t.-1erDcrt corey, writing the Boston Globe from Berne, Switzerland, says in part: Germany is suffering progressive mechanical deterioration and cumu- actual shortage of material. There will be more food the next 12 months than during the past 12, and military demands for men and munitions will be met. The weak ness is not one of material but of morale. It is not possible that any people can withstand the pressure of misery indefinitely. The day must come when the Germans must luit. About June of 1918 the Ger mans will be talking peace again. It is thought that in June the bangs # hunger are the greatest, with the meat rations lowest.
 The nations plant is wearing out. Railroad roadbeds are going to piec- IS. Engines steam badly, and the cars are racked. Factories and the trains are wearing out. Only fore cd repairs are made.
 Everyone gets the number of cal ories scientists have figured will sustain life. But every one is hun sry all the time-unless the farmer who hides pig, or a rich man who dares cheat by buying it. There is no nakedness, but Germany is wearing rags because no new clothes may be bought while the old hang together. Few will freeze, but still fewer will have heat in nore than one room.
 The Germans can get no release cf the nerve tension by relaxation. There is plenty of money, and many workmen get three to four times the old pay, but there is nothing to spend it on. They are restricted to three glasses of watery beer a lay, and cannot buy fancy clothes, md the streets are empty, with the lghts going out shortly after 9 D. m.
 Germany is weakening, but not weak yet. There is no indication yet of revolution, as the greater part of Germany, being told. only part of the truth, still believes that Germany will win. It has been old the allies are as badly off, and hat the United States is bluffing. German naval officer at Zurich read in stunned silence in an Amer can paper of our preparations for lghting. "I am going to tell about his in Kiel," he said None of IS knew you really meant busi- 1ess"
 German organization has enabled ipreading thin layer of food over he largest surface possible. but the people are suffering malnutrition An epidemic of dysentery, of two 'arieties, quickly fatal in fright ully many cases, is sweeping on through Germany. In Hamburg last summer funeral services in church. ss were restricted to 10 minutes, with the churches running to ca ,aclty. In many cities street af- CT street has been closed off to aem in the contagion, and whole owns have been quarantined. The burial regulations forbid the use of wood or wool, the cropses getting paper shrouds and pastboard cof- tins.
 The German is about half fed settlng his small supply of meats. bread, potatoes and vegetables, but settlng up from each meal with a shawlng feeling, Germany reached the food production maximum in 1917. Every available inch was cropped last year, and decreased fer nllty now means a decreased yield. dermany is eating up her food cap itai. and cutting into her herds. or which she has not enough fod der. Little or no grain has been received from the Rumanians, and the Turkish crop is bad.
 The German citizen is now re- Stricted to two suits of underwear and one of clothes. Apparently the effort to make paper clothing has been a failure. Sandals and wod- en soled shoes have been common. ana there has been much going parefooted the past summer.
 Boys of 10 1-2 have now been summoned to the colors, and men or 55 are now liable to call. The moral standards have been break Ing down, with juvenile misbehay- Tor, thefts.N and illegitimacy increas- Ing. But the German plans for next years war are more sweeping scientific and murderous than for any of the past years.