Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-11
Hindenburg the Idol of Ger
many and Kaiser Com
pletely in the Hands of
Military Despots.
Germans Will Not Stop
Fighting Until Peace Is
Imposed Through Defeat
Of Her Armies - Little
Chance of Revolution.

Frederic William Vile, former Ber-
lin correspondent of the London Daily
Mail, is regarded as the best informed
British journalist on inside conditions
in Germany. He is a native of In
diana, went originally to Europe as
correspondent for several American
newspapers and is the author of Men
Around the Kaiser.")
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
London. Jan. live still shrink
from facing the facts regarding Ger
many. We prefer comforting theories
to disagreeable actualities.
This Is convenient, but it isn't war.
Through Dutch, Swiss and Scandi-
navian channels which serve as filters
for the alleged news Germany would
like to have the world believe, we
again hear the old familiar word, "cr-
sis''-political "crisis"-food crisis"
etc.
In view of our inclination to make
the wish father to our thoughts, let
me present in tabloid the elements,
personal or otherwise. of these crises"
HINDENBURG DICTATOR.
Hindenburg is supreme dictator of
Germany. Ludendorff is the acting
e neral IS m under Hindenburg
whose popularity is now so great that
practically anything can be accom-
plished by invoking it.
The kaiser has never been so much
In the hands of the military despots
as he is today. He is emperor no
longer by divine right--but by grace
Of the great god Hindenburg.
hszly
thin supporter of Hindenburgism.
Chancellor Hertling is Hindenburg's
political manager.
Foreign Secretary Kuehlmann Is
permitted to do only what is ordered.
His Bhest- -Litovsk tactics, far from
irritating Hindenburg, were dictated
by him and are alterable IL and when
Hindenburg decides it is necessary.
Kuehlmann will go or stay. according
to Hindenburgs pleasure.
REIcHsTAG PoWERLESs.
The reichstag today Is precisely
what Bismarck founded Al years ago
merely an imperial debating society,
where the peoples representatives blow
off steam and can call the government
without police interference. It's only
vestfge OF power Is in the voting OF
funds-which duty 1t has performed
dutifully.
The only untamed independent So
cialists number % out of a total men,
bership Of 397 in the reichstag and
they are the only ones who ever op-
pose war credits.
The government haggles with the
reichstag party leaders merely for the
purpose of saving itself trouble.
The food situation was probably
never so bad-but 1t Is not critical to
the breaking point. Regularly near
the middle of winter comes the star
walton" story out of Germany. The
coal shortage has undoubtedly been
aggravated, but the way the Germans
have stuck 1t out SO far indicates they
will survive the present winter discon-
tent.
NATION WAR WEARY.
The German army is unquestion-
ably war tired. The German nation is
war weary-but this applies also to
others. There is probably no more
popular growing in Germany than
here. Munitions trains continue to
roll to the west and Germany is max
ing aeroplanes. submarines and shells
at rate hitherto unequaled. Two or
three million prisoners are all making
munitions in one form or another.
As to the possibility of revolution.
Heine. the keenest student of Prussian
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