DREAM OF SEPARATE PEACE FADES.
(TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.)
LONDON, 30th December
The Daily Mail's corresponden at Petrograd states that neutral officers from Germany report that owing to the depression an abnormal number of suicides are occurring. Three out of eleven German officers in one boundary-house committed suicide. Everywhere'it was whispered that a hundred thousand had been killed in the fruitless autumn campaign in Russia, and the dream of a separate peace had faded. The cost of living is causing much hunger among the poorer classes. The scarcity pf food, in Hungary is pitiable. The Government is taking over stocks and establishing food tickets in January, yet while the. idea- of ■ the destruction of Germany is prevalent the people will fight.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 1, 3 January 1916, Page 3
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