Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
PEACE OR REVOLT
NEXT IN GERMANY
About to Take Their
Fortunes Out of Mill.
tarists' Hands
FEAR T COLLAPSE
Front Now Matter of
Peoples Nervous
Concern
Special Cable to Erenins Public Ledger
Rotterdam, Oct I.

Copyright, 1918, b. Nsr York Times 60.
Rotterdam, oct. T..
From a source in which the most COM
plete confidence may be reposed can
give accurate information Of the present
feeling of the great majority Of the
German people as the result of the series
of terrifying flashes OF truth from so
many fronts.
The words OF Norwaerts. circulated BY
the Wolf Bureau today, Things cannot
20 on much longer" mean that there
now reigns in the military commands
the most intense fear Of utter collapse.
with the coming Of rapid defeat, while
the civil population Is clearly showing
the Government and the military that it
Ia about to work out its own salvation
In it's own way, namely. the way taken
many times in history by peoples who
have been systematically misied and
misused by oppressive rulers.
The home front has now become n
, matter Of great anxiety to the military.
This is chiefly due to a most thorough
propaganda for a democratic constitu-
! ton which is bearing extraordinary and
widespread results, the chief OF which
Is that more than three-quarters of all
German families now regard the Prus-
sian militarlsts' ambitions as tho curse
NJ the nation and the cause of all its
miseries.
This view vas immovably fixed when
! recently every boy on reaching the age
of seventeen was Immediately sent into
tho army. The utmost e~ndeavors were
made TO keep this fact from the outside
world. but ] can guarantee its truth.
II is not surprising, therefore, that
Germany is now declaring that it will
have a new popular government. which
will have to proceed to making peace al
once or will get its demands by revolu'
ton.
The discussion OF tho latter course
Ia nv no means mere talk. as was that
of the Germans of a year ago. I am
assured that the newspaper criticisms
Of the rulers are only the palest renec.
tion--although some are pretty strong
of the actual anger and desperation ami
mating all public opinion. Indeed the
authorities rather encourage such plair
spcpking. as II tends 10 hide the much
more serious and real feelings of the
people. In short the weary and dee
perate nation is set on reform will
peace or revolution.
So certain are people that the present
4 tersion cannot last much longer tina
they confidently expect peace within ST,
months-of course by way OF a re
formed constitution rather than a revo
luton. a risk which they think the pres,
ent rulers would never face.
As for military circles, Bulgaria's &C
ton was p staggering blow, although
the extremists accuse the Kaiser %
knowing II all beforehand.
This with the possibility of Runiani;
rejoiniug the Entente, has turned al
|, eyes anxiously toward the Dardanelles
where the last word may well be spokeI
! by the Entente guns. N this time no
from battleSnips. either.
The bombardment of the Belgian coas
lends interest to the German boast tba
+, this is the II ~lmpregnable position out
side the homeland, faith in the defense
/, of the dunes which begin close TO In
4 Dutch frontier being very strong.