Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — Germans Expect Peace in November; Lose Victory Hopes. [ARTICLE]

Germans Expect Peace in November; Lose Victory Hopes.

An Italian workman interned in Germany since the beginning of the war has escaped through the Alps to his own country with the report that the German people want peace and expect it to come in November. Ofjficial dispatches received in Washington tell the man’s story, according to which the Germans have abandoned hope of victroy at arms; laborers are threatening to leave the factories if the war continues another winter, and the civil population generally is living under terrible conditions. He said eight hundred soldiers attending a circus at Essen, were killed at one time by bombs of allied aviators.