CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1219, 3 June 1919, Page 2

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

NEW ZEALAND OFFICER'S IMPRESSIONS. "At till 1 time I was there," said Lieut.-Colonel X. S. Falla, of Dunedin. when discussing conditions in Germany, "the people struck me as being unaware of certain salient facts. They seemed oblivioug of the fact that they had started the war, and were inclined to rail against a hard fate. Indeed, in spite of the khaki garrison, many ot them did not even seem to realise that they had lost the war, and it was evident that throughout its course they had been consistently misinformed. However, they were beginning to learn of the chaos that reigned in other parts of Germany, and seemed glad to have the Allied soldiers present to preserve order. Most of them looked a bit thin and peaked, and in conversation with them 1 formed the idea that they had suffered infinitely more privation than the Knglish. However, their habit of obedience to authority had kept them from open revolt. A few of the better class preserved a dignified aloofness in their dealings with the conquerors, but most of the people bubbled over with friendliness, and the difficulty was to repulse their overtures. Even the language difficulty was a smaller bar to communication than might have been expected, since almost all of the Rhineland Germans seemed able to speak French, and many of them English.