GERMAN WAR WEARINESS,
INTERESTING ADMISSIONS.
LONDON. August 29.
Friedrich Naumann publishes in the German journal Die Helfe an article on the weakening of popular opinion regarding the war. It contains interesting admissions, and says that from the commencement of the strife everybody was enthusiastic to defend the attacked Fatherland. But to-day many no longer knew why they were fighting. At the beginning tho people did not know the real meaning of war. Now death in the field and privations at home had brought a realisation that surpassed all that had previously been imagined, and the impression had becin created among tho German people that they had boon pushed into something that they did not really want.
"The peoplo forget the true history of tho war. Hence it is possible for agitations of tho Liebknecht typo to penc trato to tho very army. The people of Germany no longer believe that the war is defensive, and gloomily suspect a, policy of conquest."
Herr Naumann appeals to all educated Germans to teach the people that the war must continue, becauso the enemy still desires to crush Gerr.iany.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16326, 5 September 1916, Page 8
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