The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-24
GERMANS AND WEARY IN STATE OF UNREST STATE PASSENGERS Americans Returning From Enemy Country and Neu- tral Lands Tell of Bad
 Conditions LEVINE AND TROTZKY ARE IN KAISER'S PAY T H IN KS BERNSTEIN Well Known Writer, Who Went to Russia With
 Hopes, Finds Only
 Idols of Clay

An Atlantic Port, June B. Germany, war-weary and ill- fed, IS Tn a state of unrest so acute that talk of revolt against the imperial govern ment is common among both the military and civil popula- tlons. according to Americans who arrived here today on a Norwegian liner, after long residence in Germany or ad- Jacent neutral countries.
 Officers and men, the voyagers said, had told them of sullenness which lis widespread in the German army. predicting that it would reach the point where the troops would refuse to fight.
 You see that I wear the coat of the Kaiser. only wish that you could know the feeling that lies beneath it. for we are not going to stand this forever" a German major told Miss Olga Wurs- berg of Grand Rapids according to her story on coming ashore. The conversa- ton. she declared. took place in hos- pital at Godesberg, Germany, where the officer talked freely to her, not suspect- ing that she was an American Under the same conditions she declared. a pri- vate soldier said to her:
 Some day we are all going to put down our arms. Why should we fightr Our officers now, instead of leading us. go behind us with their guns at our backs.r
 GERMAN MORALE DECLINES
 Miss Wursberg, daughter of Frederick Wursberg, wealthy Grand Rapids mer- chant. who was born in Germany and naturaIized American citizen, declared that the morale throughout Germany is poor and the people near revolt With her family, who returned with her, she has lived six years in Germany. She as- serted that soldiers In the hospitals convalesce very slowly, so poor Is the food given them.
 Carl E. Olivarius a Milwaukee lawyer, returned from trip through Norway. Sweden and Denmark, declared that food is so scarce in these countries that lit- tie can be spared Germany Report ing conversations with travellers from the Teuton empire. he said
 No one in Germany speaks of victory. They always talk of food. The war. in the minds of the civilian population has become secondary to efforts to get enough to eat''
 Leon Rains of this city. who has re- sided the last five years in Dresden. de- clared that Saxony is well supplied with food but conditions in Berlin and other iarge cities are terrible
 VIEWS OF BERNSTEIN. N
 Herman Bernstein. the writer, who sailed for Russia six months ago. believ- ing that the bolsheviki would establish a stable government, returned convinced he said that Lenlne, Trotzky and their followers were in the pay of Germany. He declared that nine-tenths of the peo- pie desire intervention by Japan, with allied approval. to put an end to the chaotic conditions resulting from soviet control
 BAND OF THIEVES
 The red guard Is nothing put band of thieves. said MT. Bernstein. Tt is not uncommon to see officers on the streets relieving people of their valu- ables. To protest means arrest and in Russia today a person who is arrested usually is shot before he reaches q court 3f justice"
 WHY KERENSKY LOST OUT
 Mir. Bernstein declared that kerensky has lost his popularity with the Russian people, who blame him for failure to crush the bolshevild revolution when he had the power. Kerensky's whereabouts he said is unknown in Petrograd
 Baron Sergius A, Korff another pas- senger, who was removed by the bol- sheviki as deputy governor general of Finland. declared that Germany would ] be unable to reorganize the Russian army for use against the allies.
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