WAR'S AFTERMATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 5

WAR'S AFTERMATH.

BLIGHT ON CENTRAL EUROPE.

A VIVID PEN PICTURE,

SOCIALISM ADVANCES FROM EAST ' ; * TO WEST.

By Electric Telegraph.-Oopyright. \tntralian-New Zealand Cable Association Received December 29, 11.25 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 25.

"Advanced Socialistic ideas ure coming down from.the East right over Europe,' is Mr Peacock's striking summing up from Warsaw of the iniquities in Central Europe. It is impossible for those at a distance to realise the extent of the breakage and disintegration of the old systems or tli.i agony of their death. It is inevitable that as the new forms arise, beaten nations will not repeat the svstems which* brou'ght their riii'n; Bolshevism is merely the Russian m.'thod. Poland, Germany and Hungary are following constitutional means to the same end. ~,... , „r Mr Peacock draws a terrible picture ot privations due to cold, hunger and disease' in Central Europe/;? -My UtMiko, "aunt-eyed children and shell-shocked soldiers ate begging in the streets Women are overworked and thin. He thinks things are working towards a crisis, ratner than towards a solution. The cost of living has enormously advanced, and. it is a rare thing to find « middle-class family left with any Havings. Manufacturers are doing little. They unci jumping wages changing every three months, preventing quotations for businesb, whilst the scareitv of materials is great. Mr Peacock concludes: "The Germans as a wholo have no sense of war guiit, but | rather a sense of dismayed disappointment and solf blame for their foolishness. Germany still heists that England is waging on economic and industrial light in order 1 to wreck her, whilst associating with tho militaristic, territorial ambitions and the activities of France. Nearly the whole of Europe is short of food, fuel and clothing. .Disruption has brought sadness, disease, ill-health and sourness.'