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In a letter to The Times Viator " writes:---

A VERY VESUVIUS OF BRILLIANT ATTRACTIONS

TO-NIGHT at 9.15

HAVE YOU SEEN MAXIMO?

The seriousness with which the German Peace Delegation now at Versailles is treated by the Ealite Powers conipares curiously with the attiture shown by most of the Biermans have met in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany. 1

ob.

'ADVOCACY OF BOLSHEVISM CUTLER, PALMER & 00.'8

GERMAN PROFESSOR'S ALTERNA.

TIVE TO SLAVERY.

In 1812 the Russians set fire to Holy Moscow in order to make in vain Napo- We Germans leon's triumphal march. can now show that we too, are able to: take great decisions."

This is the concluding sentence from an article appearing recently in Rete Tug The view of the average Geman is that (Bert Day) by Professor Eltzbacher, an it des hot matter whether pener is signed influential member of the Conservative at Versailles or not. The majority of party, and entitled, "The East Means.“* those in responsible positions, the bankers Affirming that he is still a convinced Con- and big business men, are hopeful that servative, the writer maintains, notwith peace will not be signed, and that a Eure standing, that nothing is now left for ther Allied occupation will result, bring-Germany but to go over to Bolshevisın.

lle says: ing with it the order and industry already prevailing in the occupied Rhineland and affust nowhere else in Germany.

let me first endeavour to describe life here in Berlin. Externally it does not Krently differ from Berlin life in 1913, Life generally has the appearance of normality. The shops are open, the trans run. The electric light operates

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to escape slavery, and in our interests ASAHI BEER?

cus

Bolshevism comes, in that

it will alse viction that, when it comes. stream over Western Europe and flood and Lloyd George. But if Bolshevian en it would still be an advantage to Ger-

millions The Entente cannot draw

Bolshevik Gers many. of mones, searly from is to succeed, then many If

[***y Cirmenauld not achieve this”

Those who now hold the fate of Ger many in their hands are helpless. Their protests make no impression on our enemies, and they must sign whatever is Also the Conservative Haid before them."

out. There opposition sees no other way is only one expedient, though it is no expedient for little souls who cannot free themselves from the commonplace, and that expedient is Bolshevisni. It is not to the is always bot water for the bath. Restau-enough to announce every day to

enemy that his policy is driving us into arma of Bolshevism. That is the wenk rants, dancing and gambling salons, are the a

alf

several times in policy of negation Ch the contrary, we night long. Open the course of a week one pauses to remark

inust ourselves take the responsibility for Bolshevism, whatever its evils, in order that archine-guns can be heard in out- If one mators about at parts. night, the car is likely to be buited by soldiers and

Sund arched for hidden

holidays temporary barricades appear in Foter den Linden. streets Barbed wire is stretched across that form strategic positions of defence for the Wilhelmstrasse and the Govern

Thus we have the ment headquarters, Kiut of trouble that brews beneath this outward calm. By following twisting paths I have been able to come we must honourably accept it, introduce face to face with sune of it in the making the Soviet fort of Government, and socialize without making

This

would not bring marlstrom of plots as we At present it is still and counter-plats but it, is crystallizing any danger to our economic existence. for for the day when pence is accepted or

Bolshevism would not be more damaging refused-whichever happens does not seen than the continuous improvement with It is which the Entente threatens There are to-day about 5,000 Russians hard for those who possess capital created in Berlin agents of Lenin and Trotsky, by their own efforts, bas they must no

that

consideration. into With or without the connivance of the longer take

ople sacrificed its present German Government but cer- 1519 the Prussian people tainly with its

the heads of gold and silver for the Fatherland. The seri- this army makers conduct a State must now not shrink from ou daily courier service through the German fice of the whole of its possessions. In the lines from Berlin to Moscow. As a result long run it would lose still more through printing press were first established in the Entente. Even if one does not regard but are now running in Berlin, the Bolshevistic system as just, considere- chizand in carrying out the allert und tiens of foreign policy are the only in- post brilliant idea that the brain of Lenin portant factors. We must lay hold upon has yet conceived namely, the destrue Holshevism as the only means of saving tion of currency. I mean that Germany Germany from slavery and oppression is now flooded with millions of counter fait park nows that are as excellent in quality, as those turned out by the Gov- ernment. There is so much of this money that the banks dare not refuse it-an it

The verywhere, and good. is current

whether Deutsche Bank no longer knows

tu matter

it

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The ferliner Tageblatt denounces Herr Eltzbacher's proposals madness and says it would mean, the suicide of the German Empire.

it is solvent. This same admission has Rhine where the £3 and 100f. notes are to be circulated among the 'British and wer made to me by the lead of another side is

who, by way

the

great banking institution, ddly asked Meanwhile the brend remains black, illustraluch Gerruan money I then had even in the best hotels, and butter costs

me how

80 marks the

54

salva-

The

like beaten and

The question will the in my pocket. produced about a thou

Germans sign Peace is quite as often asked marks, and the banker showed me Sand

in Berlin ast seems, from the papers, to that 20 of them, in 30-mark notes, were

But the Berlinor is only bad. I had obtained them, in exchange in Paris. for British sterling, that morning at one curieus The answer does not really nat of the best-known herenus de chauge inter. In the Phineland intelligent Ger- mans will tell you that the presence of Berlin.

Allied

is their blessing and troops But this is not all ur..the worst of this

and the industries phase of the situation. To-day they are tion. The people are beginning to work

re-open of printing £5 notes in Berlin these Lenin

about.. Germany is at reeling presses; also 100f, notes of the Banque de

athlete who has been terribly France. Quite good imitations, although who cannot make his first or his band not goud as the Gerinan notes, because

Caline into Cer of the greater difficulty in matching the respond to his brain. paper

What will be done with them? many with the common. Entente unvic- can only surmise by showing the use to tion that Germany was picking up and am now convinced which the bad money is put in Berlin setting stronger

that

und wenker, This and more and more workman.

uvernment of a saddler President and Premier, the hands of a fermer aid of von Bising in bagian

The prept Government paid 12 marks she is getting sessimistic.

per day to every unemployed

It now pays 15 marks per day, despite the its is the fact that its anpital is exhausted Nose the Minister of Defence,

gets

Eve

nothing

in the old Government with a marks

at has offered not one constructive measure in

single thing to

if de hanging on padly in the hope that

per man per day, and the best food that new Thee. In its six months of power it

Entente has sent in This addition to the upkeep of the Hindenburg Army on the Polish frontier and the der Goltz

troops in Courland. about get something out of the Entente 230.000 in all, makes the pay sheet of the routwit them in some way or other, Loth Brockdurft fantzan and his cousin Bern

War Office abom the same as in the days storff being my past masters of

when the real German Army, was fighting

diplomacy. the Allies Noske would like to cut his that particular for

So the best opinion that I have been three marks per day, but rate of pay to

whether dares not do it. It is only the strength able to sound is that the Coverantent can

that holds things toge

it sigos peace or not survive. history, and the chances here aftry the Verstilles Conference, whatever

Optimists give it about six

weeks

Then Ext.

probably time, and after that the rule of the pro a day in bad money. The posts are filled with Soviet literature. The Government Berlin first. A Noske dictatorship Light letariat unless the Allies take charge of posters all about Bet placing

bave chance were is not for the state of Bolshevist horrors. In the poorer the people, and their knowledge that be

almost districts the Lenin agents are

has treat

entirely shifted from his former openly at work. In the cafés they

the ne alicomers with wine or beer. They con- tion of Socialist member of the Beich ist of renewed In hand, and the most likely go away with blockade jeave the people quite indiferent,

marks in

The fashionable Pocket

because during the six months of armi weird and cafés present restaurants and

they have profited nothing. So their they blending of aristocracy, bourgeoise, and

sign peace of not, aa even proletariat that could never have

They are without cheap food and been seen together in Berlin before the

without hope

They consider that the economically ruined, and if the

ther al are strongly against his ability to do it long.

Because any unemployed the result may

Nosku dictatorship for the same length of Geminor any sold

soldier can get 15 marks

stowing B

sider the economic situation of the cases to the most reactionary spirit

sent Government. Threats

war

war.

i

camouflaged Russian. (Most of the best

But the aristocracy is largely intelle does not go to Berlin and take

with the pro-at

fetariat, are people having a look at high

any"

class Germans are keeping in the buck the situation in hand, perhaps even choos around the remainder,

Some of the bourgeoisie area would be preferable to things as they are

at least not much worse, and

a change. cannot too strongly emphasize the statement made to me again and again in responsible circles: the Germans, being

life for the first time-on this forged case it would be a

The oney to which 1 have referred

of this has been that some of

great German industrials, despairing used to autocratic form of government, of the present ramshackle Government's sre

power to survive the shock of Versailles" of domtely unmanned by the absence

authority, reminding me

made open overtures to Moscow. Bismarck's statement that the Germans Buch men as Hugo Stinnes, the coal mag. nate, also Dr. Walter Rathenau, of the were a nation of lackeya. A banker re the marked to me, We Germans Are good General Electric

have already

servants, bat badmasters. Germans munists, on the promise of personal im

of Prussia Prussia munity for themselves and families power, and tyranny

has no prestige in all Germany to-day. men argue that after a few months do not desire to damp the enthusiaan of Communism they will be culled back the pencemakers and those who ans about to take charge, as the only men capable of to build 1 bonfires through Great Britain, managing affairs, and that they will come but 1 warn toy friends of

the Brichte. back on their own terms. Thus they are

offered their talents to the Com-I was held together before by the prestige,

am of

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promise, so far as Germany is concerned,

at Versaillos or signing. For

in the hope that the unvaccinated product. have no good affect in Germany unless Germany is supplied with a stabilizer, will pass to the armies that guard the perferably in the shape of the present mild

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