HOW GERMANY FEELS.

Bruce Herald, Volume LII, Issue 23, 23 March 1916, Page 3

HOW GERMANY FEELS.

1 CRY OF SUFFERING.

That the condition of the civil population' of Germany i s much? worse than the 'outside world' has been permitted to know is the conclusion drawn by the 'Matin' from the reading of some 5000 letters found on the first 1200 German prisoners taken at the Hartmannsweilerkopfy in the Vbsges. These letters generally betray great' depression of spirits and speak of the lack of neces-' saries of ■ "l'he following are quotations from some of the letters: t- ' It Js now eight weeks since I «have been able to get any fat. It is ii%:, . fully scarce. (December 15.) One canuot keep one's strength with dry bread and potatoes (Aitstedde. November 3.). ••; ' ■This-cannot last. Our strength fails lis. -When -we have peace we will thank God on v,ur knees. After the service the clergyman returned and said joyously that peace would be made in* February. Everyone in church began to weep. o£e could /hear' the people sobbing. (November U -K . , -'■■'■ '%:- When everyone is dead, the war-will finish perhaps. (Cologne, November 14.) We shall be obliged to abandon everything if the war is not finished in •the spring, for that would be the third season without income; we could not keep on. (December 5.) - < Tnig abominable war cannot last much, longer j the- misery would be indescribable. (December 5.) " You ought simply to revolt. That would be better than letting yourself I ,be killed or crippled. You have been long enough at the war. We women have also had enough of starvation. Potatoes and bread, bread and 1 potatoes, it is a 'pitiable life. It cannot last without fire, and we have no coal. I have no money to buy it. (Mannheim, November 26.)" People begin to get excited. Food is lacking. On Sunday we had a disturbance. (Berlin, December 6.) Here it is true war. Everything is so dear that people come to blows. More than one woman has returned from the market on a stretcher. (Spandau, December 11.) No butter, no margarine, no anything. . Who knows what is to happen in Berlin if there is no change? (Charlottenburg, December 14.)