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LETTERS THAT "REVEAL WAR WEARINESS.

UNCENSORED STORIES OF THE FIGHT FOR DAILY BREAD,

With her Prem and Partinmens stifled, har police ready to ponies as the first protest, her consois putting our own of shume in severity, Germany of today muar needs be a ferrs incogaits to the pations that invest her.

a letter from his loved ones at home falling bins that they know nel whern tol turn for their daily bread. Bus, such luments, that bear, on them by their very erimlity the stamp of trich, are frequent in these pathetic messages to German soldiers.

and in the evening mounted troops layered than If the police had rentured out they would have been Lynched There is an unparalleled “exuitement hers, and also at Dortmurid orit Cologna and the surrounding distrius,

Konlynberg, May 4.......

"Thera`is oothing more to eat A Konigsbery you can get neither butter, for meal, not bread, nor four por anything.

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Frona Dortmund in January came the human ery Do you know that Germany cannot gú on ? Reople fight in the markets to gès butter."&"Nari month, another writes 'from Cansol Pray God the war ends" "soon," or we shall haya! disorders se la 1849. **

› We, rund af another vios at Breslaur, of Ominous words in a country that is bitter complaints against speculators mething with fears and distress and who are causing famine more surely than discontent hundred-fold more poignant the English," against the police who reply. Truth will out, however, under the and widespread than the year which sair to plaints by blow with the flats of their at tyrannical of officialdom. Scme-the German werking man beleging the sabres, and against officers who are always times the veil is lifted for a memeps in Potsdam palace of the Prussian despots..given precedence. the Reichstag Ball. Otten credible) A woman's despairing ery hast March One of the mess valuable contributions. Oct. 16eutrals throw a lurid light on Germany's frem Nor. Pufferings in the catastrophe she has husband — Nor. 15 wrought, but it is left to the pen of tha 13 Nov, 26 soldier in the field and of his loving ones Dro at home to pains the real agony of our

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hopes. But the lettera are found by the hundred on the bodies of fallen Cermata or in the pockets of prisoners, ready to be posted after the bastle which, for many was their last. Therefore they are uncensored, and, moreover, the letters written from home w soldiers in the Beld seem, in cunny cases, to be granted special | immenity by the blacking out efficial. Read in bulk these letters, form the most raluable symposiumi at present, obtainable of the true situation in Germany fod of the intelligeat Gempas view.

Writing in the Revve des Deux Mondo." M. Louis Madelin pashes in review a collection of these German let. fers and diaries startling by the sincerity of their revelations. Papages from these and other letters are quoted below -

CILY FOR FOOD.

The following letter, dated May 14 last, from Leipzig, was found upea à German, airman captured on June 1:-

Last Saturday evening there were serious riots, and the propla did much execution At Lindens Plagnitz, Bectoh and Kleinschacher. In the Frankfurterstrasse they broke the windows of three shops and ranacked thers. They assembled in thousands shouting and yelling Two hundred police, mounted and on foot, found themselves helples. The crowd seized the brides of the horses and prevented them from moving. At Bentech

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Linden (Hanover)

H

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I can't continue this life my longer I can't keep up this fight for daily. bread.

The same month a Barliner writers

There is no more bulter, sugar, coffee, Port has completely disappeared. for some time, and potatoes, now the staple food of the working classes, are becoming delikatemia, and the price is vising in a'colossal manner, or s Another Berliner discourses dolefully on the prohibitin price of the Pagetwurst and the sausage genus generally

Saveloga se (be writes, as tough ta dry bread, for there is no grease to put in them, and they cost 4 marks Gu (4. Bd.) a pound. In the minced liver sausage there is nothing but catmeal and bredderumbs, and it won's keep uore than a day.

You are locbiddles to make any other Port of sarsage. What we used to call Thuring or butchers' sausage consist of gristle.

now

comes from a man of thought and sub- stance, a banket-officer on leave, writing to a comrade at the front on Apd? 26

For eight days past there has been. for instance, se meat at K; the municipality supplies the needy with bad meat which no man can eat. The doctors have already reported on the manifestly inadequate food amiable for the civil population of Germany,

The only people satisfied are the makers of munitions who are making their millions. Everybody else groups, and complains.

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After vivid description of the acutes now familiar to our readers of anxious | Mr 8. 1. Betting Dr. A. T. Kroderer Frava besieging all day shops which have Miss . J. Bonzago Mr.K. Larssen managed to get a supply of butter the M G. H. Bowday Mr & Mrs G Lauri writer says milk cards are granted only Capt. R. Branch Mr. S. Longfield * to those who have young childrea.... Mr&Mrs H.Bridges Major D. Macdonald Tallow which they used to throw at Mrs D. Buahanan Mr J. R. Mackinnon

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Mentzer women take their stand at three in the Mrs Cornelinasen & Mr T. Merek

Mr P. A. Millet morning, always under the surveillance Courtney Mr W. F. Norris of the police. A herring which used tor J. W. Courtney, Mr. P. Fa cost id. is bd. now. You can make a

Mira C. S. Paget Mr R. L. Farker round of Berlin to get Alb, of sugar. We shall probably have cards for that

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Mr. E. Douglas. Mr R. Rouss From Wilhelmustahl (Westphalia) cores Mr F.S. Douglass Mr. R. R. Roxburgh the complaint that people are stealing Mr AW-Eastman Mr and Mrs.T. W.

Miss M. E. Duffy Mr J. H. Bouti chocciate shop was taken to dogs with which to make soup.

Early this morning they started afresh, breaking windows until about four feieck Eblins arrived with their lances and infantry with fixed Layonets, after the troops strived, but he concludes ou letter suggests that regiment

The witter does not say what happened malade." In fact, there me to Mr & Mrs J. Fisher Me, Spiers,

a plethora of sarmalade in Germany, and on pathetic note. The potato allorance threatened to mutiny becarise zurmalade per week has just been cut down from. 7 to Sibu's head!

comprised their staple of nourishment.

We find that even Esscu, the Krupp stronghold is unable to escape the common lot. We shall soon be able to institute a Famine Committee," philosopher on April 10, for you want.

** It is terrible,” said a letter-from-MFG. H. Eware, Dirs M. Blade sile in April to have nothing to eat. Mr P. J. Falconer Capt. J. Gaith but slices of bread whitevampote and Yewkes Me V. Sorby

MAC Finlays Mr. B. Scrouse

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There is abundant evidence of these

food riots which are never mentioned in the German Press. Another Leipzig citizen wrote just before Christmas

the workers.

hunger.

wrote a

In the Reichstag and in the papers at anything for your money." A they want to throw dust in the eyes of Dusseldorfer vota next day If the Well-to-do people can war lasta much longer we shall die öf carry on, but the working class is dying of hunger. No longer can we get maat, nor milk, nor butta, nor fat. We have only bad potato bread and not | Enough of that

All we can do

is to famiah and wait for the moment when it pleases the criminals to make "peace

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We read that ond woman, was killed,

The whole street is tall of women in another had three fingers cut off, a third ranks, marshalled by police. By went mad waiting half the day they can get balf.

a pound of fat st 2 marks 25:(2s. 8d.)" a pound.

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