Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-13
GERMAN PEOPLE
 LOSING FAITH
 IN HUN VICTORY
Doctor Returning From Germany Says Hope for
 Teutnr Peace Gone.

London, Jan. -CCOrreSpOndencc of thc Associated Press.) .)-Gerniany's declining faith in victory is described hy "a we'll .to-do neutral medical man who lately left German. after living in Augsburg during the war period" Writing from Berne to the Daily Mail, he declared that though still believing that Germany could not be beaten, the German people had long since become war. weary and had given ur hopes of the so-called German peace.
 The masses" he continued, "are in an hysterical state one minute pray ing for pea,a at any price and the next under the influence of some piece of news some wall-organiZed patriotic concert or kindergarten exhibition got up by the Fathe:laEi ianneXationist party, at which they will be shouting { wild applause and singing "Deutsch- land, Deutschland lber Allies"
 "The Fatherland party is justly re- garded by many people as the chief obstacle to- peace. In Bavaria it's pro paganda is unceasng and is advanc- ing 3y leaps nd bounds. The party has unlimited funds anl good business men to spend the money judlciously in cultivatiug the German will power On the other hand, this junta of gov ernment officials. country squires, ironmasters, admirals. and big manu- lecturers exercises and odious tyran- Hyson all the people dependent on it. Woe betide the village constable. the concierge, the factory hand, or agri- cultural laborer underline who dares refuse his monthly gift to the Father land party's funds.
 "As for all 1ha fuss about democrat ization l think it is mostly moonshine, manufactured for the benefit of tho romantieallv inclined English Radical. There is discontent simmerlng up and down the country, but to quiet it a pound of butter 9 week would go far 1her than any promise of political re- form. The riCtS that take place in the towns iron, time to time are the work of women whose husbands have long beer away in the field and who have got out of hand. Mobs of half-grnwn lads run wild and get into mischief. and worse than mischief.
 .'In Bavaria the Emperor and Ber- lin, never popular, are now less pop ,llar than ever. BavarianS are Unmov- ed by Williams choice of von Hertling as chief adviser. + ven Hertling had been a Bavarian born they say perhaps there might hove been something in it, but he is a Hessian. In Bavaria, as elsewhere, the Emperor has been som- pletely overshadowed by liindenbIre, who to the average German is the war incarnato, and whatever there is great and glorious about him is putting the I'd hG al nCiDfsAS Snt ire - ly in the shade On the other hand Hindenburg came with the war and will go with the war In Bavaria and elsewhere tho dynastic sentiment is so strong that nothing can root it out.
 q consider that, however the war ends, whether the German empire continues to hold together officials or not afterwards, the result will be an enormous intensifidation of separatist feeling in the various constituent states.
 "As regards the food position. should say that it is only acute for people of small means. They are the only ones who suffer the pangS of real hunger, especially the small off cials. the police. the schoolmasters. tho ministers of religion. and people living on small salaries or annultleS or say ings.
 .'lt is generally recognized in Ger many that German prisoners of wal in British hands have been we'll treat ed. and tho impression is now begin ming to get abroad that the treatment of British prisoners has not alway: been what 1t might"