The sun., 1919-03-27
Editor Sees Little Hope Of Per-
manent Peace Under
Wilson Plan.
GERMANS ARE STARVING
Begs America to Send Red
Cross Aid to Save Infant
Population.

Germany's economic and political sit
| uation IL desperate indeed, according to
| Dispatches from Oswald Garrison VII
lard. which viii appear in the Notion
Of March 20. The political unrest ID
largely the result Of widespread short
age In foodstuffs and fuel and the Ebert
Government maintains itself in power
only because the opposition has no
leaders of national calibre. Bolshevisn
10 fast spreading in every part Of Ger
many.
Mr.. Willard places the responsibility
for the spread of Bolshevism through
out Germany on the delay In the COM
pletlon of the peace treaty consequent
upon President Wilson's determination
that the League Of Nations shall be an
integral part OF the terms Of peace.
''The feeling now being aroused" Mr..
Willard cables from Paris after an ex-
tended trip through Germany, makes
against the hope of permanent peace
and Wilson's plan. Whether or not It Is
now too late to relieve the mistake BY
food supplies whether Ebert and
Scheidemann can maintain themselves
by the compromise OF taking some indie
pendent Socialists into the Government
tho next few weeks will show.
Agrees with Senator Ledge.
But II looks now as II Senator Lodge
was ight-that peace should have been
mado FIRST and the league afterward.
though not for the reasons which he
wishes TO further"
In regard to the lack OF food and the
consequent suffering Mr.. Willard says ::
81 believe to be correct the German
| estimate that in the empire 500 die
daily because of undernourlshment and
inability TO resist disease. for have
carefully gone into the situation in Mu-
mich. Weimar. Dresden and Berlin.
III humanitarian America could real
iEe the actual state Of affairs II would
compel the Red Cross TO push in food.
milk. oils. grease and soap. 1t Is now
agreed that food will be sent in, ard
fats. too. but milk and grease as well
are needed. I have seen infants In
| Berlin and Dresden hospitals with the
| shrunken limbs and swollen stomachs
characteristic of famine sufferers. and
l have seen that the midday meal for
all patients In one hospital is simply a
| carrot soup-nothing else--for all ages
and all conditions of disease. No spe-
cial diets are possible and physicians are
unable to build up their patients after
fever or when the shock OF operation is
over.
Mothers Greatest Sufferer.
Most children now being born in
Berlin are ten months infants. but the
women are the greatest sufferers as they
are denying themselves food for the
sake Of their children. No one can live
on the rations allowed; all have TO OBJ
tain food surrept!tiously at terribly high
prices. Workmen are getting high
wages but have TO spend all to get
enough food to keep alive. One work.
man saw earns 100 marks a week, but
has bought no clothes since the war be-
gan and Is literally in rags. His two
children are dead and his wife 10 dying
from consumption. tuberculosis Is in
creasing greatly. as Is venereal disease
brought in by returning soldiers. The
| week was in Dresden not one pound
of meat was distributed. There will be
no bread there by April Is unless relief
from the Allies comes in time. Condi-
tons In Munich are almost as bad.
There will be positively nothing TO ra-
tIon there after May 5 unless aid
comes"
Fear Of the resumption OF the war by
| Germany Is groundless in Mr.. Willard s
opinion. He says;
The morning that Eisner was as
eassinated I was in the Landtag, which
was dissolved by revolver shots. After
witnessing some lighting OF the streets.
and having seen something OF lighting
In Berlin, ! am prepared to affirm that
no one need have the slightest fear OF
Germans again starting anti-alled hos
Titles. II such fear Is responsible for
keeping large armies OF occupation in
Germany the troops may be sent home
promptly. particularly the Americans.
The Generalization Of the German force
is complete. especially in Bavaria, where
The last regiments are being mustered
out and all trained officers are being
rapidly sent away from the War Min
istry.
THE troops, comprising half fed,
unframed boys. arc rs ragged as
Falstaff's; all stan work Is at an end,
and every one says II would be innpos-
slble 10 recruit 10000 men to start up
new war. The workers are deter
mined that the old conditions shall never
return.
No Fake Revelation.
Sometimes think the difference be-
tween old and new Germany Is best
Illustrated by tho simple fact that the
Bavarlan Government has already be-
gun altering royal palaces and villas,
making them over into homes for work
ing people. After that who will dare
call this n fake revolution? When I
left Paris certain Northcliffe papers
were calling the recent upr!sinss cinema
revolutions. The gentlemen who wrote
these words would have found other
adJectires II thSy-.;aI W en- f.sseSss6 ii
me ard seen tho wonderful outpouring
at Elsner's funeral had watched the
lighting in Munich. had seen the abso-
lutte disarmament of the bourgeolse and
the arming OF every trade union worker
in Munich with an army rife and many
rounds Of ammunition"
Germany will open wide her doors 10
Bolshovism, according TO Mr.. Willard, In
case the Allies try to force her into a
peace such ms she forced upon Russia
at Brest-Litovsk, and the same result
may follow further delay IN the negotia-
tons and the continuance OF the block
ade. As TO the present status OF the
movement he says:
THE spread of Bolshev!sm In Ger
many Is remarkable. At least 500 Rus
sian agents in Berlin are known to the
Government. which Is honestly and
deeply concerned about the presence OF
the Trotzky army on the frontiers.
Berlin Ia full OF forged Russian, Eng
lish and French moneS, to which rich
Germans contribute on the curious
theory that II tho SocialIs.a 80 -.