Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1917 — Situation In Germany Revealed. [ARTICLE]

Situation In Germany Revealed.

Germany won’t be starved next winter. Germany is Beginning to believe that U-boats won’t starve England. The feeling against America in Germany is not bitter but— President Wilson is close ,to number one on the German’s strafe list. These are some of the impressions acquired in Germany by a distinguish*ed newspaper man of neutral nationality who cabled the United Press the following dispatch today: Amsterdam, July 26.—1 have brought home the conviction that the fourth winter of the war will strike the Germans hard, but the allies will not starve Germany into a surrender. It this moment the economic situation is not desperate as the Germans fifive raised tremendous quantities of vegetables partly in consequence of the hot summer. This, however, does not prevent many Germans from looking forward with pessemism to the winter. Prospects for cereals are good but the fodder situation is serious. Many cattle will be killed in the fall for lack of food. 'Thereby making more difficult the question of fat supply. The potato crop looks good. Great areas of former waste land are being cultivated by convalescent soldiers and Russian prisoners. \ The food problem causes much squabbling but soldiers rations are still good. There are still a few unrationed articles. War materials still seem plentiful. Gun and amunition factories are working night- and day. Confidence is general that the German armies will keep the enemy outside of Germany. , , 4—*— Confidence in the submarine is diminishing. Many Germans believe that the allies will hold out until it is proved that even with American help they cannot break the German lines in Belgium and France. • The surrender of Alsace to France is declared not worth mentioning. But pan-German annexation schemes have not the support of the people or the government. Feeling against America is not bitter but President Wilson is about the best hated of men. > The idea that Austria could make a separate peace—which Germans consider prevalent in America —is heartily laughed at in Berlin and what is 1 more likewise in

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