Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-16
FUTURE OF GERMANY
IS SERIOUS PROBLEM
Support of Fap Hindenburg
and Moderate Element.
DlssENTrONs LIKELY TO COME
Anarchy May BE Looked For II Food
Supply Fails, as There Is Every
Reason 70 Suppose 1t WiH-Out-
look Gloomy.
NJ CAPT. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SMITH.

ny CAPT. GORD0S-GORDO SMITH.
WASHINGTON. November 1.-THE
great problem facing the allies ana the
the final peace with Germany. In
.%Genty-six days the armistice period
w. W. come to an end and the two bel
meet to settle the final terms Of peace
Hut as IL takes two to make quar-
The present anxiety OF the allies and
the United States government Is as to
Mhether they viii md any one In Ger
me government Of Germany is in the
hmn nrq r 3r Ioci5iist repubiH Of which
the Socialist party with a minority
representation Of The independent So
So far the revolution has been prac-
,cnlly bloodlcss and the Social Demo
Gratis of Germany arc for the time be-
the state machine THE leaders Ebert.
Philip Sche'dcmanr. i.cdebour and
are men of undoubted talent. many Of
batcrs.
, SO admirably orgs,niZcd as the Social
Democratic PARTY Of Germany. f,i no
Party do the chiefs exact such com
excite the envy OF u regiment of rrus-
sian guards. All this was. at least. it's
far for 6f'%rf ims Ws s In how
ITS Organization and disciple there is
no means OF knowing. II Is notorious
many as possible OF the 100000 So o.
cialist voters 10 the front line trenches
,o me new government is further al
from 1iindenburg as commander-in-
chief OF HE army. II military disci-
n!Sh,n n nag been preserved In any degree
Herr Ebert. That liz the credit side
OF the ledger.
It,,, "a.
awaken The deepest anxiety. The FIRST
Item on this is the diviaions among
the Socialists themselves. Against the
conservative majority Socialists there
are arrayed the radical elements. and
behind these tho Bolsheviki Iieb-
knecht. liaase and other radical Social
lsts have been until now al daggers
drawn with the majority section
DANGER or STARVATION
IL WORST FEATURE
II is more than doubtful I: the pres
me worst feature OF all is the eco
nunic situation. For three years past
'iermany has only been kept alive by
received cards Emitting them 10 nxad
quantities OF bread, -four, meat. sugar.
The distribution was carried on; by
IN the world. Bat this Bureaucracy
In itk upper ranks AZ ieast was solely
as cmcmiss OF the rathcrland
THIS distribution Of food prcsup
way .ervicc and the undisturbed work
INK Of posts. iclcgrnphs and telc phones
The peak down OF any one OF these
FUSION since the revoiutionb: would
spell starvation to thousands.
-, Inc usknown QUANTITY In the pres,
present IL Germany. There is e-EcIy
reason to fear tina, /, is no, great. Il
~ "a * r. |.
knees. The grca, drive OF March last
VA MY n race race WIN starvation Germany
TO throw down the barriers behind
which 'o.0G0,o6o people were starving
She failed The whole question now
her s,orehouses en- PITY? SoIrs appeai
10 president Wilson shows Germany
desperate plight. with the d!stribIt.
as 10 hc useless and eranaries empty
mott ing but Starvation sta-es Germany
serbia closed the last sources of SUP
Ply Gtom the East. Roumania and
so that Germany IL now dependent; on
her own re4ources, and il IL now m :
winter aqsSthc harvest Is months away.
IL the government should fail to
ieed the armies At the front II will
be face To face with 5000, 900 starving
men armed with rifles and machine
guns.
There is little doubt that in such n
CRISIS INC ignorant and starving masses
VIII listen rather to The extremists
than to the more moderate elements.
Scheidemann. Ledebour and-thc other
leaders supported the war OF agrees
sion wEged by the Kaiserites. n fact
that the masses are not likely 10 for
get. There are, therefore. at present
all elements Of n tremendous cataciysm
In Germany.
II was probably with this In his
mind and the necessity Of localizng
the catastrophe which led Field Mar
shall Foch ,sternly to recall the armies
o, me a,mes 70 me nseessitJX Of the
He will further. probably, have to face
a rush OF hundreds of thousands Of
Germans 10 the territory to he occu-
pied BY the allied army as the only