GERMANY WITHIN.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1917, Page 5

GERMANY WITHIN.

PEOPLE’S POSITION DES-

PERATE.

WORKERS ILL THROUGH UNDER.

FEEDING

LONDON, February 25. i Thp Daily Chronicles correspondent at Amsterdam trays that evidence k accumulating Of the desperation of the German people- ‘‘My informant, ” states the correspondent, “who left Germany a week ago, says, that hundreds’ of workmen in the shipyards and ammunition, factories are ailing as the result of under-feeding. Tins has caused a serious shortage of labor.. , At the Yulcnmyards: at Stettin, where submarines are being constructed, . many ,of men struck as* a protest .against under-feeding. The police used arms to suppress the de'moustrations, but the spirit of revolt is spreading and .the strikers .have steadily increased. .. “At Hamburg, thousands of hungry womo'n and ill-clad children a fortnight ago inarched in silence to the Burgomaster. The house police roughlv dispersed them. .“At Berlin the position is equally threatening. Eight thousand employees of the General Electric Comp’-iny are demandijfg better wages'-and ifood. ' ifiny of the h'ripUnls are overflowing with men who have collapsed from starvation. Great, queues, of women' and, children- wait at the .back doors of the more expensive; restaurants. to receive the kitchen/.refuse.

“Tlie iuitlioritic;!' are. heljilcss tV obtain and- dihtri bate / relief. “There w;ere deaerate scgpetA at Dpnmuid on. the Tilth.’ A .hungry mob Hacked the shopi! and.’attacked tlie police. Cavalry with drawn sworda rode in the midst of the crowd mid niiuiy were injured. A '• “Holland is increa»iiiglv : . anxiouK, fearing a madden German food raid.”.