Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-15
HUNS CRYING FOR
FOOD AND PEACE;
WANT WAR TO END
Allies Are Sure to Win, Says
SimmS, by Keeping Just
Aims Before World and
Holding West Front
sx WILLIAM PHILIP s1SIMs

ZURICH. switzerland. Feb 14.--As
indicating Germany's thoroughness. she
viii 90 longer permit corpses to be
buried in their clothes.
They must ne placed In paste BOARD
+ collins. They must be clothed in paper
shrouds. or bound in paper sheets.
No WOODEN. cotton. linen or similar
material mus; be wasted in graves
while wooden. zinc. copper and other
metal caskeJs are generally forbidden.
An American woman. Just leaving
Germany. declares al ordinary articles
are 20 scarce Fat a sale % her worn
'out kitchen utensils brought undreamed
Of l.ric-s German women packing in
hsr home sought an opportunity 20 buy
Things -ne wou!l have thrown away.
Taey paid fancy sums.
Tie woman says the Goa. shortage is
IA more acute than outsiders imagine.
This is not due 10 lack OF coal but TO
labor shortage. plus transportation diff
Ii,ulJies. The scarcity of cars caused
the military authorities TO reduce trains
ID little more than sufficient for tine
army's needs. The rolling stock is n
# ghtful disreTair.
silver and nickel have been demoni-
T. ed. All gold, including jewelry, is
requested lin the name Of patriotism"
in order 10 keep up gold coins and pre-
Veat too rapid decline in the value OF
paper money. Tie peope no longer eN-
pect victory. the woman declares. The
best they hope for is that Germany
reach satisfactory ending.
Pleased with wilson's Speech
7 understand that President Wilson's
speech made a deep impression in Ger
many and probably will bear fruit. on
the most reliable information it is said
the kaiser is sa,d 10 have declared Will
sons aims were reasonable enough to
form the basis for negotiations.
Wilhelm. however. is without in
L-uence. / am told that while openly
opposed to the extremes to which the
war party is Leading the empire, he does
not murmur as Hindenburg and Luden-
dorff are his absolute masters.
An American girls, recently arrived
from Germany. says many children and
even women are now going barefooted.
They are unable TO buy shoes a proud
professor of the University of Liepsig
asked as a favor to buy discarded
shoes of the girls brother.
a crime wave is sweeping the ooun-
try from end to end. Thugs otter rob
pedestrians of their clothes The chill
dren of one of the girls friends were
robbed Of their shoes while on their way
home from school. The weather was
bitterly cold and the children arrived
with their feet almost frozen and bleed
ing.
The girl says the newspapers are
most active in sneering at America
Every effort is made to diminish before
the masses the United States participa-
the American effort is ali bluff and
trustworthy of the country which pro-
duced Barnum.
Food and Peace
The girl had the utmost difficulty in
leaving Germany. She was on the verge
of receiving a degree at the University
Of Leipsig when America entered 1.-The
war. The degree was withheld because
Americans were refused permission to
leave the country.
After a time she was told she could
leave il she would do certain work for
Germany-and would receive the degree
and big pay"
She Indignantly refused to become
traitress and spy. Whereupon the po-
lice logged har day and night until she
finally succeeded i'm getting out
Travellers agree that 80 per cent of
the German people have lost their en-
thusiasm for war. The sole topic of con-
versatiOn is food and peace.
Intelligent people are asking. What
is the good of launching another often
sive?' Many of them know America be-
cause they lived and worked there
These say the United States will con-
tinue the crusade 100 years, if neces-
say, to rob Germany of her spoils.
Everything points in the same direc-
tion-the central empires are econom-
ically and generally in such a turmoil
that all the allies need to do to win the
war is to keep equitable war aims be-
fore the world, and hold their own on
the west front
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