AMERICAN FROM GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15900, 24 April 1915, Page 8

AMERICAN FROM GERMANY.

CONDITIONS DESCRIBED. "TRANQUILITY" OF BERLIN. Times and Sjdney Sun Services. (Received April 23. 8.10 p.m.) London, April 23. An American journalist, who has returned from Germany, says that food is plentiful and Berlin was never more tranquil and gay. Upon the surface, there is no war and plainly the purpose of the Government is that this condition shall continue. One may see husky young men keeping the railroads at the highest standard of efficiency, and strong, young arms are felling trees in the forests. There are enough of such men to carry on 60 per cent, of Germany's ordinary trade with adjoining neutral countries, which Germany is doing. The American saw the Kaiser twice. He sat erect in his seat, with his eyes directed straight ahead, and his hands resting with a firm grip on his sword. Grey hair showed beneath his helmet, but there was no white hair on his face and none of the pallor of a man bearing an overwhelming responsibility. Germany believes that she is fighting a war thrust upon her to exterminate her, and not a war of the Kaiser's making.

There is a growing 'demand in France that peace terms must include the cxilo ,of the Kaiser.