Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-06-24
Americans Returning From
Germany and Neutral Coun-
tries Say Teuton People Are
HI Fed and ReStive,
PREDICT SOLDIERS
MAY NOT FIGHT
Officers, Instead of Leading
Men, Drive Troops From
Behind With Guns at Their
Backs Is Report,
10Y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w'ssl

An Atlantic Port, June 23.-Ger-
many, war-wear, and ill-fed, is in
state of unrest so acute that talk of
revolt is common among both the mil
itary and civil populations, according
to Americans who arrived here TO-
night on a Norwegian liner from Ger
many or adjacent neutral countries,
Officers and men, the Noyagers SAID,
had told them of a sullenness, which
is widespread in the German army
predicting that it would reach the
point where the troops would refuse
TO fight
You see tht | wear the coat of the
kaiser. | only wish that you could
know the feeling that lies beneath IT,
for we are not going to stand this for
ever" German major told Miss Olga
Wursberg, of Grand Rapids, accord
ing to her story on coming ashore.
The conversation, she said, took place
in a hospital at Godesberg, Germany.
The officer talked freely, not suspect
ing that she was an American. She
quoted a private soldier as saying to
her:
Officers Driving Men.
Some day we are all going to put
down our arms. Why should We fight?
Our officers now, instead of leading
us, go behind us with their guns at
oHr Backs"
Miss Wursberg is the daughter of
Frederick Wursberg, Grand Rapids
merchant and is naturalzed Ameri-
can. She has lived six years in Ger
many with her family. She said SOL
diers in the hospitals convalesce very
slowly, because of the poor food they
receive.
Carl f. Olivarius, Milwaukee law
yer, returned from a trip through
Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He
said food was so scarce in those coun-
tries that little can be spared Ger
many. Reporting conversations with
travellers from the Teuton empire, he
said:
mo 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 eff
| forts to get enough to eat"
Leon Rains, of this city, who has
resided the last five years in Dresden,
declared that Germany is well sup
piled with food, but conditions in Ber-
lin and other large cities are terri
ble."
Herman Bernstein, the writer who
sailed for Russia six months ago be-
lieving that the Bolsheviki would es-
tablish a stable government, returned
convinced, he said. that Lenine, Trotz-
ky and their followers were in the pay
OF Germany. He declared that nine
tenths ofNthe people desire intervention
by Japan, with allied approval, to put
an end to the chaotic conditions re-
sulting from soviet control.
THE Red guard is nothing but a
band of thieves" said Mr.. Bernstein.
! 1T is not uncommon to see people on
the street relieving people of their
Valuables. To protest means arrest,
and in Russia today a person who is
arrested usually is shot before he
| reaches court of Justice"
! Mr.. Bernstein declared that Keren-
sky has lost his popularity with the
| people, who blame him for failure tC
crush the Bolsheviki revolution when
he had the power. Kerensky's where
| abouts, he said, are unknown in Pet
| rograd.
Baron Sergius A. Korff. another
passenger, who was removed by the
Bolsheviki as deputy governor of Fin
/ land, declared that Germany would
! be unable to reorganize the Russian
| army for use against the allies