GERMANY WITHIN

Grey River Argus, 27 February 1917, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN

-^ CONDITION OF PEOPLE SPIRIT OF REVOLT INCREASING CAVALRY Usll>"TO DISPERSE MOB (Australian, auu jm.a. Cable Assn.) (Rec. February 26, 5.25 V m -) LONDON, February 25. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Amsterdam says that evidence is accumulating of the desperation of the German people. ''My informant, who left Germany a week ago, says that hundreds of workmen in the shipyards and ammunition factories are ailing as the result of underfeeding. This has caused ■& serious shortage of labour. At the yulcan yards jal Stettin, where submarines are Deling constructed, many hundreds of (men struck as a protest against un•derfeeding. The police used arms to suppress the demonstrations but the spirit of revolt is. spreading and the strikers have steadily increased. At Hamburg thousands of hungry women and ill-clad children a fortnight "ago marched in silence to the 'Burgomaster. The house police rpugh!iy dispersed them. j "At the position is equally 1 threatening. Eight thousand employees of the General Electric Company are demanding better wages and food. j "Many of the hospitals are overflowing with men who have collapsed from starvation. Great queus ot ! women and children wait at the back doors of 'the more expensive restaurants to receive the kitchen refuse. i "The Authorities are helpless to obtain and distribute relief I "There were desperate scones at Dormund on the. iQth. A hungry \nob sacked the shops and att : ited ire police. Cavalry with -lra.vn ?wo.ds rode l in the midst of the crowd aod many were injured. ! "Holland is increasingly' anxi ) is, fearing a sudden German food raid."