BLIGHTED GERMANY.
WHAT PRISONERS SAW. LONDON, January 9. Repatriated prisoners from Germany give as their opinion that the whole country appears to be blighted. During a journey of 26 hours they only passed two traine, and only saw three chimneys from which smoke was coming. Nothing was sold in the streets. All life seemed suspended. The male population is on the fighting fronts, and the women and children remain within their unheated and unlighted houses. Germany is standing the hunger test patiently, and the endurance may last a long time yet. No doubt Germany is short of food. Our guards, stated the prisoners, would pounce on bits in the swill tubs in the British camps. Many towns are in darkness owing to the coal shortage. Women are employed on the railways as platelayers and firemen. There is much Socialistic talk among the soldiers, who describe the war as mere folly.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1918, Page 5
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