BACK FROM CENTRAL EUROPE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18051, 27 September 1920, Page 6

BACK FROM CENTRAL EUROPE

A BRIEF OUTLINE.

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

CFeom Ocb Own Correspondent.) Mr H.E. Peacock, h-alasian journalist and Y.M.C.A. orgaaiseT fIE &"?• spe + Ildln S a considerable tTme on rw i t?® ,, * , ™ tmg aU tho countries in Central Europe with the object of studying, Irom the overseas standpoint, their numerous local problems. WitnMrs Pe£ ooct he has beea in Bulgaria, Dalmatia, Horary, Czecho-SkvW, Poland, Russia and many other countries. °n a ° oh he sfcar ted inomedK whfoh f° . SlSning Of the which he has just completed after a four TZ ths f , sta y n Germany. He was at Spa toT,? 1 1C A Confer f nce . ««i travelledl back to iMigland a week ago. Throughout his journey he has mixed with aid studied economic conditions from their viewpoint; also he has had interviews with kings and. rulers in all the countries. While New Zealand. Mr Peacock was in Germany during the election period, and the impressions which he has formed should provide material for extensive use in future articles and lectures. He is concerned to find conditions in Germany as they are, butter, and milk are commodities never the children are poor little them by the American Relief Committee iift °°l n *l held together by the strength 01 the Kaiser partyis now lacking in unity, and there is the tear of dissension, particularly while the populace is m possession, of arms. When the armistice came there was no internal military organisation, and the soldiers returned to their own homes with their rifles find those are still in their possession The disarmament of the country is a vital necessity, but tho point is whether the German bovornment is sufficiently representative and powerful to bring it about. From the industrial viewpoint, Mr Peacock finds the O.ermnn viaon still very wide. He described Mir Lloyd George as the arbiter at Spa! keeping the balance on behalf of the parties concerned m tho Conference, and he was much interested to watch tho'British Prime Minister walking about the villa grounds in animated conversation with, allied delegates forcinpr home his views by emphatic thrusta of his clenched right hand jnto the palm of his left. Mr and Mrs Peacock visited in France the grave of their son, who was killed while in the Air Force.