The sun., 1919-03-27
FATE OF GERMANY
RESTS ON FOOD RACE
Continued from First Page.

advantage OF this situation to obtain in
dustrials and commercial interests at
ridiculously low prices, while Americans
are sitting supins in Copenhagen and
The Hague chaing because they are
stringently forbidden even to speak TO
Germans under penalty OF forfeiture of
their passports.
Three spineless Political PARTIES.
Politically no dependence or hope can
DO placed In the middle Class Demo-
cratic. Centrist or Liberal parties. They
are spineless and insufflciently organized.
Therefore, II the Government gives way
IT is almost certain to slide further to
the Left, or become more radical.
Probably there Is no other country
which is appealing to the public mind
against Bolshevism with such campaign
methods and such organisations, pri-
vately financed, as are being used IN
Germany. Privy Councillor Bergman.
| at one time a partner of Thomas A. Edi-
son. told me that industrialists, nnanciers
and business concerns In Germany had
raised so far 5000. 900 TO fight Boil
shevism and help to pay the volunteer
soldiers who form the Praetorian Guards
Of Gustav Noske, the Minister Of De-
fence.
Walls of buildings, even plate glass
windows. are plastered with anti-Bol-
shevik posters. some striking. others
horrible. "Spartacus at Work. 10 the
title of one. 1t represents q fanatic with
sincwy fingers entwined about the
throat of another. who Is on his knees
before him, while behind lies a dead
woman in a pool of blood. with knife
Ia, hAs ,.-tN Hah NrN.t vNu
to reach It's mother.
The most common form in which the
Bolshevist IL represented IS that OF a
horrible gorilla, and behind It death
flames and destruction in the most lurid
colors. Another poster shows a lake OF
red blood and in It the body OF a dead
| woman. only her ghasty face and hand
| showing. with a finger pointing to her
murderer, a wild looking Bolshevist.
The caption IN "Bolshevism browns the
World in Blood"
Some Striking Posters shown.
which show the Bolshevists attacking
women. Another shows Germany as a
gigantic hill, with waves of blood beat
Ing vanly against 1t. Still another de-
picts a crazed Russian, wearing huge
boots and with a torch in his hand,
trampling down factories and work
! shops and setting FIRE right and left: II
is entitled "Germany's Ideal Future Tn
der the Reign OF the Bolsheriki.'
With the coming OF democracy every
body appeals TO the public mind. What
ever the wishes or IDEAS they are blaz
oned forth in flaming red posters. Even
the Majority and the Independent So
cialists fight each other in posters and
bills on the walls and often with small
handblls.
The police keep themselves well in the
background they are very tlmid and al
most as scarce as the former sign Yer
boten" OF Is forbidden).
Stories that the Germans are leaving
the country by thousands are not true.
The Dutch, Danish and Swiss passport
regulations are so stringent that prob
ably on an average not more rnan 150
travellers a day leave.
stood two days in line to get my
passport vised. only to flnd that II re-
uuired three weeks of investigation by
the Dutch to determine the necessity for
the trip, an obstacle overcome only
through the courtesy of the Minister. No
traveller is permitted to take moro than
$3.50 OF German money out OF the
country.