GERMANY BLIGHTED
STANDING HUNGER TEST PATIENTLY
ENDURANCE MAY LAST A LONG TIME
(Rec. January 9, 8.20 p.m.) London, January 8. Repatriated men from Germany opine, that the ivhole country is blighted. "During a journey of twentysix hours," they say, "we passed only two trains and saw only three chimneys from which smoke was coming. Nothing was being sold in the streets. All life- seemed to be suspended. Thfc male population is on the fighting fronts, and the women and children remain within unheated and nhlightecJ houses. Germany is standing the hunger test patiently, and her endurance may last a long time, yet there is no doubt that Germany is short of food. Our guards would pounoo on bits in the swill tubs at the British camps. Many towns were in darkness owing to the coal shortage. Womwi were employed on the railways as platelayers and firewomen. There is much Socialistic talk among the soldiers, who describe the war as mere folly."—AusN.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 91, 10 January 1918, Page 5
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