CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16361, 5 November 1918, Page 7

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

A LAST GREAT FIGHT EXPECTED. DREAD OF CIVIL "WAR. (xJy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright / (United Service.) (Received November 4tli, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, Novombor 3. The "Weekly Dispatch'' Hague correspondent says:—Well-informed neutrals from Berlin report the prevalence of a general expectation that Germany will throw all her power into a great fight before accepting dictated terms. Though the uselessness of such a step is recognised, the droad of civil war and Bolshevism overshadows ©verything. Many cling to Kaiserdom as the only hope of avoiding chaos. PESSIMISM THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. PEACE ATANY PRICE. (Heuter's Telegrams.) (Received November 4th, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 3. Router's correspondent at French Headquarters says:—A captured German officer states that the Kaiser is surrounded by a crowd of pessimists of the Scheidemann type, who constantly paint the situation in the blackest colours. The Kaiser*, spends whole days in a crisis of pessimism, reading the Bible and praying. . The same spirit of pessimism seems to have seized the whole of Germany, and the people want peace immediately at any price. The order of the day throughout South Germany is, "Break away from Prussia." Tho officer, however, emphatically declared that the German armies aro unbeaten. He was of the opinion that they would still be able to obtain a favourable peace.