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THURSDAY, JULY 4TM¤, 1918.

THE

WAR.

General!

BLUFFING THE WHOLE

WORLD

DESPERATE STATE OF AFFAIRS

IN GERMANY

MY FINAL WARNING

[UY ERNEST LIONEL PYKE. Į In awakening my countrymen to the desperate stato of affairs in the land of our enemies I feel that I have accomplish ed a duty of national importance.

(Continued from Page 5.).

EARLIER CADZES.

THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.] AMERICA'S RUBBER IMPORT

RESTRICTION:

LONDON, July 1st. The Financial Tame, says it is prae. I have enlightened the millions who tically certain that the American re read this newspaper to the fact that Prus striction on the import of rubber will sia cannot wait and that Prussianism can be only temporary unless the war takes be crushed by the strangle-hold of Time. a very unfavourable turn, and when We are not, as h nation, very imaging- stocks in America are, réduced to a low tive and are not easily able to put our ebb a recovery will set in Evidently, selves in other people's places. We do ander the vircumstances, any reduction of not realise that, apart from the famina output will lessen the danger of a that is spreading in Germany and Aus- serious fall in price, and companies trin, there is a danger which alarms the which can profitably rest their trees! authorities in those countries almost sought to do so to the fullest extent pos much as the growth of hunger-typhus.

I refer to the return to Austria of the Bible, but there is no need for panic, and hundreds of thousands of German, but to be scaret out of their holdings. shareholders should not allow themselves more particularly Austrian, prisoners, who were taken by the Russians carly in whether any serious setback is experi the war

Priced will depend inrgely upon the Night and day these prisoners are prudence of the managers of the com arching out of Russia into Austria panies. They have witnessed the success of the Bolshevista in overtuining monarchy, GERMAN Before the war many of them were hostils, to. the Hausburgs. There are among them Croats, Ruthenes, Czechs, and Yugo Slavs all anxious to throw off the Aus-

trian yoke Some of them instead of returning home are remaining in Russia and Siberia and fighting on the side of

the Bolshevists.

On arrival at the frontier these liberat ed prisoners are put into month's quarantine for the double purpose of preventing infection by disease and of asc

their political views. --- gained a triumph by hiring Trotsky to stir up the Bolshevists, but Bolshevism will prove, I venture to prophesy with confidence, to be one of the Brent difficulties of Germany and Aus tria in the near future

COLONISATION OF COURLAND.

LONDON, July 1st. In connection with Baron Kuchimann's declaration in his last speech in the Reichstag that Courland is already

·mgarded· રામ German territory, telegram from

Kovno significantly states that Hindenburg has issued an order relative to the land question, paving the way for German colonisation it Courland,

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA,

EX-BALTIC COMMANDER SHOT

LONDON, July 1st.

A Moscow message, dated June 23rd, states that Cupt. Sichasny has been shot.

THE EX-TSAR

The food pressure, the peace pressure, and the revolutionary pressure on the German Government have at this moment become intense. Very little news of these The reports of the murder of the ex- forces leaks out in the German news Tsar are completely discredited. papers, but one day they will lead to a B crisis. The bitter attacks in pamphlet form by one public man upon another already show what is going on be

on behind the great blu.

The iden that

Lat Prussia has impressed people is that she, with her

upon provided vassals, Austria, Turkey,

amply

and Bulgaria, stand unitedly four square to the world. That some easily befooled people believe this shows the facility with which Germany, by her control not only of her own Press but also of that of Aus tria, Turkey, and even a portion of the Prets of Sweden and other countries. is nhle to twist public opinion.

HUNGEN-TYPHUS,

If I were asked to decide on the rels tive stages of famine in enemy countries, I should state Turkey to be in the worst Position

has had much to do with reduction DI

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· PADÉPIO QURAN Services, Lan,

asked a friend who knows the condition

what must be the situation in of affairs and he says that the parcels are

and Dusseldorf. There is news from other ports besides Hamburg showing that there also the

are becom ing impossible.

I have verilled

from such places as Stettin, proving that chips which arrived there with focd were at tacked by the

the mob. Even vessels laden with raw fish were thus set upon, and

Starring crowds displayed their hunger by seizing the fish and eating it as it was instead of waiting to cook it.

People here sometimes lay too much stress upon what they call the breakdown of German food regulations.

much reduced

I should like to know what is the pro- portion of fat in these parcels now as compared with that of parcels sent, six months ago.

food endurance.

Is is fat which is the test of German

I am told that some weeks ago mar- Barine queues waited outside grocery stores in London. These should indicato to our people what fat means. There could have been no real need for mat garine queues because the supply of ol yielding fish and nuts has hitherto been ample in England.

To support life and health without fat is in the long run impossible. Such meat as is to ba ohtained in Germany is

fatless

At the beginning of the war there were mistakes made in Germany, such as the killing of great herds of swine and the andiscriminate eating of guess. However able a German organiser may be in the protection and rationing of food, it is im

The fat ration is less than two ounces possible for him to ration what does not a week and this is used to lubricate the. êxist. You cannot get blood out of a hard war bread, to help down the stone. His first orders are to report local potatoes. There is mighty little left for food conditions to the Army, in which is a farewell let me urge my follow-

frying. included the Navy, the German Fleet being under the control of Hindenburg. countrymen to stop being fooled by what HE has to cope with the hoarding of the Germans call whisper propaganda " local farmers always a difficalt thing to the parrot repetition of the man who detect and stop. When he has arrived that Germany is bound to win the war.

thas heard something from somebody else his assessment and the minimum:

Require ments of a given district, transport di If the millions of people of the United culties face him. But for the difficulties States, the British Empire, of transport there is no reason why the and Japan decline to be bluffed byItaly. od supply should not be equal in every many, Germany cannot win. by Ger

German community

An attempt has been made to extra food for the munition areas, but this provide has not been successful, munitions being made nearly everywhere. Even the parts of aeroplanes, snd submarines are con structed in remote spots and assembled at well-known centres.

If they allow themselves to be bluffed, which is inconceivable, then these islands will cease to be the home of free men and women. There might be a few years of ebaro Peace, but the eventual result dominated by Germany

be that we Would

should be drilled and

have been free for so short a time Some readers of The Daily Mail whn

that it is

is difficult for m

for me to assemble my write to ask me questions on my articles ending ampre inquire why it is that various German

impression the dazzling companies are paying larger dividends plenty which I see about me and also the than before the war. There is little possibilities of extracting more man- wrong with Germany's internal paper limited

power even without increasing the age Prosperity. some German industrials have in sons Compared with the exhausted condition

The enormous profits of

England is the home of of the Daimler Company, of Untertürk plenty. heim

Many of the textile companies forte of peace tasks are being performed making cloth for soldiers' uniforms, and war time. I cannot stir without seeing

men engaged in normal peace-time occu aroth in patient at the Durk PP pation For instance, would it be he

amaringly at of the war do not pretend to be an authority as lieved to be possible in rural districts for to the possibility of extracting food from miles and miles of hedges to be neatly Roumania and the Ukraine during this clipped during this present season just year, but educated Germans are entirely us in the spring of 1914? Yet it is a fact. sceptical: this point and believe that the Government statements as to food is clipped or not being obtained from the conquered terry for our lives. Again, who is it who per- tories are mada in the hope of quieting carriages when the horse food and labor mits sleek horses to be driven in private involved should go to the Army -Daily Mart

coses amounted to a scandal, notably those Liermany and is a place where all

the proletarist.

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