Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-01
LIFE IN GERMANY
HAS NO SWEETNESS
Even Vacation Joys Must Give
Way to Kaiser's
Mailed Fist.
SACCHARINE FOR SHELLS
B1 CYRIL BROWN.

Especial Cableeram to The Sunday Star
and New York WORLDLY
Copyright, 1917. by Press Publishing Company,
New York World.)
STOCKHOLM, June 30.-Troubles of
all sorts continue to rise to vex the
people and public officials of the Ger
failure of German efforts to lure Rus
sia into making separate peace,
coupled with the food situation, form
the chief troubles, of course, but now
another disappointment and sacrifice is
in store for the people-all because of
the increasing strain on Germans am
munition production.
Under Ludendorff's iron lash the max
Ing of ammunition is being whipped to
the limits Of the humanity possible, and
to meet his demand the imperial sugar
bureaushas announced that for an in
determinate time no more saccharine
will be available for distribution. The
basic raw material Of saccharine is
urgently needed for the manufacture
Of ammunition. The production of su-
gar long since has been practically di-
ammunition plants, and the non-produc-
ton OF saccharine means that the last
vestige OF sweetness must vanish from
life in Germany.
Vacation Joys Gone, Too.
The mailed fist" now preparing for
the late summer death-grapple, Is be-
tion joys. too. A stern warning has
been issued to the public to cut out all
railway travel that is not absolutely
imperative. This step is taken in order
possible time for the transport Of
troops and their supplies.
The public is assured, also, that Coal
troubles are much worse in. France and
England. but unless heaven sends US a
mild winter we; too. shall have to en-
dure many hardshfps, and it is every
body's duty to go easy with coal"
Greater Berlin has been complaining
again Of the meat supply this week. It
is insufficient to give All the people the
prescribed ration. and 1t is intfmated
that the ration may be reduced even
further.
In regard to the Russian situation the
most recent develoment Is not calcu-
lated to bolster up German optimism
A dissatisfied and querulous tone blows
through German public opinion and the
press, particularly since the Russian
soldiers and workmens council declared
and in favor of opposing the socialists
conference at Stockholm.
German Press Chagrined.
What has happened at st. Peters,
burg?" asks the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger.
still refusing to call the capital Of the
former czar by its new name. But the
paper is unable to answer it's own
question and is seeking. to derive a
grain of comfort from q report emanat-
Ing from alleged trustworthy sources
that the French and British govern
ments are secretly warning their citi-
zens and subjects In Russia to get out
as soon as possible. Despite such
items. however. the German press can
not hide its chagrin over the fact that
Russia apparently has taken on a new
lease of life.
German socialists also continue to
add to Germany's vexation by freely
airing their differences over the peace
question. The preliminaries leading to
the conference between German radical
socialists and the Dutch and Scandi-
navian committee at Stockholm serve
to emphasize the split between the
minority and the majority of the Ger
man socialists. The radicals declare
that from the wars beginning they
have fought for peace based on no
annexations and no indemnities. while
the majority socialists are mere op-
portunists. seizing upon the no annexa-
tion formula to exploit the present sit
uation.