Evening star., 1918-06-24
WAR WEARY, ,|LLFED,
HUNS NEAR REVOLT
Soldiers and Civilians Both
SuIIen, Returning Ameri-
cans Report.
HUNGER HITTING HARD

AN ATLANTIC PORT. June "a
Germany, war weary and ill-fed. Is in
a state of unrest SO acute that talk of
revolt against the imperial govern
ment is common among both the mill
tary and civil populations. according
to Americans who have arrived here
on a Norwegian liner, after long
residence in Germany or adjacent neu-
trail countries.
Onicers and men. the voyagers sald
had told them of sullenness which
Is widespread in the German army.
predicting that it would reach the
point where the troops would refuse
to fight.
You see that l wear the coat of the
kaiser l only wish that you couia
know the feeling that lies beneath 1t.
for we are not going to stand this
forever German major told MISS
olga Wursberg of Grand Rapids. ac-
cording to her story on coming
clared. took place in hospital AT
Godesberg, Germany. where the ohl-
Ger talked freely to her. not suspect
ing that she was an American: Cnder
the same conditions, she declared,
private soldier said to her:
Private Soldier Predicts Revolt.
some day we are all going to put
down our arms. Why should we night:
Our officers now, instead of leading
NE. 20 behind US with their guns at
our backs.
eriek Wursberg. wealthy Grano
Rapids merchant, who was porn III
t. 20
can citizen, declared that the morale
throughout Germany Is poor. ana the
people near revolt. With her family.
who returned with her. she has ilved
six years in Germany: She asserted
that soldiers in the hospitals con-
valesced very slowly, SO poor Is the
food given them.
Carl f. Olivarius. Milwaukee law
yer, returned from trip through
Norway. Sweden and Denmark, de-
countries that little can be spared
Germany. Reporting conversations
with travellers from the Teuton en-
pire, he said:
Food, Not Victory Talked Of.
no one in Germany speaks of vic
tory They always talk of food. The
war, in the minds of the civilian pop
ulation, has become secondary to ef-
forts to get enough to eat"
Leon Rains of this city, who has re-
sided the last five years in Dresden.
declared that Saxony 10 we'll supplied
with food, but conditions In Berlin
and other large cities are terrible.
Herman Bernstein. the writer, vino
sailed for Russia six months ago. be-
1ieving that the bolsheviki would es-
tablish a stable government, return
ed convinced. he said. that Lenine.
Trotzky and their followers were in
the pay of Germany.
Russ Want Japan to Intervene.
He declared that nine-tenths of the
people desire Intervention by Japan.
with allied approyal,, to put an end
10 the chaotic conditions resulting
from soviet control.
THE red guard is nothing but a
band of thieves" said Mr.. Bernstein.
1T is not uncommon to see officers
ON the street, relieving people of
their valuables. To protest, means
arrest. and in Russia today q person
who is arrested usually is shot be-
fore he reaches a court of justice"
Mr.. Bernstein declared that Keren-
sky has lost his popularity with the
Russian people, who blame him for
failure to crush the bolshevik revolu-
tion when he had the power. Keren-
sky's whereabouts. he said, is un-
known in PetroGrad.
Baron Sergius A. Korff, another pas
ssnger. who was removed by the boil
sheviki as deputy governor general of
Finland, declared that Germany would
be unable to reorganize the Russian
army for use against the allies.