Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — NEW PLEA TO WILSON [ARTICLE]

NEW PLEA TO WILSON

BERLIN APPEALS TO AMERICA FOR FOOD. Communication Sent Through the Swedish Foreign Office Hints at Disaster. Stockholm, Dec. 20.—The Swedish foreign office has handed to American Minister Morris a communication from the German minister in Stock-, holm on behalf of the German govern-i ment, appealing to President Wllsqn for leniency to the German pedple. The communication of the minister declares that unless situation in Germany is improved there is grave danger of “more serious social disturbances.” London, Dec. 20.—An extremely eotifused and doubtful situation has arisen in the Berlin congress of soldiers and workmen’s councils, according to dispatches from Berlin and telegrams from correspondents of the London newspapers. Invasions of the congress by Irresponsible parties of extremists are reported, leading to frequent uproars. These have resulted in a state of high tension with threats of the -Ebert-government to resign. The newspaper Vorwaerts, representing the government, refers to the danger of the whole apparatus of the government falling apart. It takes the most serious view of the situation.