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THE TRAVAIL OF GERMANY.

COMEDY AND TRAGEDY.

Mr J. C. Segrus writes from Nuremberg, In January, to the Daily Necs as follows :---

People said at Berlin, and at Munich. "Go into the country districts and the smaller provin- cial towns if you want to feel the pulse of the real Germany and see deep down into its soul." I select. ed Nuremberg for the experiment, because the stretch of country separating it from Munich is al most entirely agricultural, and because the town itself has asso- ciations with the Huns and the Hohenzollerns.

The former lingered a little here on their drive southward and inter-married

with the local population. Learned authropo- logists profesa to discover traces of Hun ancestry in the features of those demobilised peasants who have just returned home. Thus after all there may really have been Huns in the Kaiser's army. The tradition of associa tion with the Hohenzollerns rests upon surer historical grounds. The family lived here for over a century in the Kaiserburg before migrating to East Prussia The ex Kaiser, with his half-mystical, half-melodramatic sense, liked to revisit the home of his ancestors oyer which now floats the red flag. On his last vișit last year he was seen one evening, en- veloped in a great coat seated brooding under the ancient lime tree within the inner courtyard.

LOVE AND LIBERTY.

In the villages we passed through en route the inhabitants seemed to be mainly occupied in 4.inarrying or attending marriages. Demobilisation bas released countless German lovers. The matrimonial advertisements

in

the village newspapers suggest that the now' movement here, too, has its influences.

Side by side with the fair- baired Fraulein who advertises as a supreme attraction that she possesses a pig, two goals, some "hens, and has the right to get vegetables from father's garden

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There is a graver aspect to this problem. The walls in the vill ages are covered, with posters issued by the Workmen's Coun-

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cils, warning women and girls GETTING OUT OF THE ARMY. agains: thoughtless marriage or

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ULTIMATUM TO THE HENS.

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something. Why they didn't put us on a main line I can't con- ceive. As it is, I hardly dare

leave the camp for fear the train never brings me back again."

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association with de mobilised on AN AMUSING EXPERIENCE. vastness of the social evil problem A Dispersed Officer" writes: in Germany has almost become-Prosting by our war experience,

The train duly whistled and the despair of reformers.

we attached ourselves to a major, 5 topped, then crawled on again. who belonged to the Dispersal and dropped us all. Comic opera incidents abound Staff, judging by the luggage he in this topsy-land. Indignant at carried for no one takes luggage the tendency of peasants to send to a dispersal centre. He describ- the eggs to the restaurants anded the organisation to us, with its hotels of great towns, village Arrivals Routine, and Departure Soldiers Councils have threatened section.

to shoot all hens who do not **The weak point is the railway. supply an adequate quantity for If we do 5,000 per day, as we local consumption.

hope, it means 10,000 for the

Last night at a local bali the railway per day. As you see, the dancers refused to leave engine is a 'Drill Purposes Only, the ballroom at the regulation and when she whistles at the hour. The Workmen's Council crossing she stops. Sudden cessa- dispatched a machine-gun to tion" of the heart's action. frighten, not to fire on the dancers.

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factories.

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The major advised us to report at the arrival section first, then have lunch, and then report to the adjutant. We chose to report to the adjutant first, but as he was not there, and the routine department thus at a standstill, we

Want to "Arrivals." i Arrivals" counted us, wrote "6"} on a scrap of paper, and said that; Was all.

We then went back to the adjutan, who was still missing. They said he was at lunch or in the mess.

We went to the mess, but he

Forgetful of discipline the believe that Germany's travail machine-guners joined in the has only just begun, and that couldn't be found. Various dance. A girl's indiscretion caused stability of government and a new people pressed us to have lunch, the gun to explode. Seven dancers social order will only be reached which consisted of potatoes, steak, bread and cheese, and when we wounded.. Is.

this through tears and bloodshed. really, Germany, disciplined. In Nuremberg, as in Berlin had finished we resumed

our orderly Germany, or does one Munich, and other towns, the search. draam?

Finally we found the missing] Workmen's Councils constitute The peasantry are not entirely the effective governing authority. one doing his work in the mess untouched by the new spirit, al- Liebknecht and his Spartacus ante-room! It was his method of though Socialist peasants are an friends find no favour with the avoiding the importunate, and extremely small minority. Some workmen employed at the local choosing those to be dispersed by of the regulations imposed on

a species of survival of the fittest! them by the new regima are

We played musical chairs, in a Geheimrat von Rippel, one of resented. The presence of de the industrial kings of Germany, queue of easy chairs, until we legates of the Workmen's who employs 25,000 workmen af reached his deck. There, with Councils at milking hours to see the well-known M.A.N. machi-mechanical rapidity, he issued us ..that an adequate amount nery works at Augsburg and with protection certificate, rail-

is sent to the towns causes irrita- Nuremberg, and whom I quest

warrant, demobilisation tion. The farmers and peasantry ioned on the point, assured me ration book, and some literature in the main do not sympathise that, given an adequate supply about civil employment to read in with the excesses of the towns, of food and raw material, and the the train, and directed us to but show no disposition to serve liberty of exportation, there was

Departures. "Departures" consisted of one ends the

of the Royalist, little possibility of Bolshevism reactionaries,

attracting the mass of German bored officer, who wrote on a list Even in the country districts working-men.

with a blunt pencil that didn't no desire for the return of the "Outside Berlin and certain write our names and the code Monarchy is expressed. The elements in the Saxon textile trade numbers of the station to which humiliating end of the Hohen-districts," he said, our working-certingly brief and uninterested. we were going. He was discon- zollerns makes their return im men are strongly in favour of a possible, and while there is no return to order and good govern-We were now officially dispersed active antagonism towards him, ment. Among the workers outside subject to the vagaries of the little sympathy is entertained for my factory gates I sometimes camp railway.

the former King of Bavaria. hear Liebknecht denounced in As we left the camp we noticed MASSES AGAINST BOLSHEVISM. terms more violent than those that, though only 3 p.m., every The great country mansions used about him by bourgeois news- electric light in the camp was show no sign of life. Through papers. The movement for wages med on. The assumption is. the iron gates one sometimes gets greatly higher than German in- that it was to help people find the glimpse of a machinegun on the dustry can stand is a really Adjutant, for if they could only lawn. In the country, as in the serious problem, but employers of do that, avoid the lunch, and miss towns, the rich and the middle- labour hope that stability of out Arrivals and Departures, the classes are plunged in despon- government will produce a return whole thing would not take more dency. Perhaps class prejudice of sanity in this as in other than 10 minutes? As it was it

I took us two hours, Linctures their outlook, but they matters.”

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