FEELING IN GERMANY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5446, 1 June 1916, Page 5

FEELING IN GERMANY.

PEOPLE WEARY OF WAR

WANT PEACE BEFORE WINTER

Rotterdam last Night.

Berlin messages state that Von Bedecks is carrying out the organisation ot the food supply with characteristic Prussian thoroughness, by securing inventories of the food in all private houses in the municipality of Berlin. Ho has established twenty-five large kitchens to supply 020,000 persons daily. The price of a meal is thirtyfive pienriigs. Other municipalities are taking similar action in communal .feeding, originally intended for the working class districts. Many of the middle class are in a sad plight, and are raising an agitation in favour of the authorities feeding rich and poor in a uniform manner. The Gorman harvest promises to be exceptionally poor. Prior to the war 700,000 tons of nitrates were imported for agricultural purposes. None w r as used this year. A private, letter smuggled out of Germany says: “We are all becoming vegetarians. Only a quarter of a pound of meat each week • sounds dreadful, but. vegetables are abundant and asparagus is cheaper than ever. The . fish supply is excellent, though there is little butter and oil to cook them in. Berlin is a joy for ever. All the racecourses aTe active, a.nd a million and a half marks a day have passed through the pari mutual, but everybody except high officials are utterly weary of the war. Germans cannot understand why the Allies persist with the wax. This week we were all betlaggccl on account of the defeat of Italy. All this good news, however, does not effect tlie desire to end the war. The belief is universal that we will have a victorious peace before winter.” It is reported that forty-seven Zoppelins have been lost since the beginning of the war. Twenty-two submaries have lieen turned out of Scliwartzkoph factory m the last eight months.

HONOURS FOR HEROES

TWO NOTABLE FEATS

London, Lost Night

Among the long list of deeds in the latest Honours List there is nothing more notable that the feat of Second Lieutenant Campbell of the Engineers, The Germans had dug a mine, primed with over a ton of high explosives, It only required the lighting of the fuse. Apparently the Germans were awaiting a favourable moment. Campbell cut into the gallery and removed the entire charge. He was awarded the Military Cross. Another fine story is told concerning SecondLieutenants Lord Donne and Walker. In an aeroplane they sighted a “Fokker 1000 feet below them, 'they dived. Walker firing at .sixty feet range. Donne, headed for the “Fokker.” Both opened fire and shot away the “Fokker’s” wing, which fell into the British lines. Both were awarded t Military Cross.

GROOMS AND SERVANTS

KTTCITENER EXPLAINS

London, Last Night. In the House of Lords, Lord Mkl-'lh-ton drew attention to Mr Churchill's statement that 200,000 officers’ servants and GO.OOO grooms were be-

hind the firing lines. Lord Kitchener, in reply, said that servants and grooms served in the trenches, and were not considered as being behind the firing line. He thought thot Mr Churchill had thoroughly realised this fact. AMERICA WILL FIGHT. FOR RIGHTS OF SMALL NATIONS New York, Last Night. President Wilson, in a Memorial Day Speech said that the' United States was ready to fight against aggression and for American rights when American rights were coincident with the rights of mankind. America stood for the principle that small and weak nations have as many rigftts as large States.

WILSON AS PEACEMAKER

NOT WELCOMED.'

London, Last Night. Lord Cromer, in a letter to the. “Times,” says: “President Wilson cannot too clearly understand how desirous. The people of the Empire are of bringing the war to a close. Altogether they reject the idea of peace, save 011 terms wholly acceptable, to them selves and their Allies. Presi- 1 dent Wilson should also realise the meaningless of the misleading phrase invented in Berlin about the freedom of the seas, which is a mere euphemism, for the destruction of Britain’s nav;Tl supremacy. It is inconceivable that as a result of the war the nation will accept the proposal to diminish the relative naval strength of the country. Lastly, despite our friendly fooling towards America, it is more than doubtful whether we will welcome President Wilson in the role of mediator. As Note succeeds Note and speech the conviction is gaining ground that President Wilson has wholly failed to grasp the views of tho vast number of Englishmen upon the cause for which the Allies are fighting. This is confirmed by the amazing statement that America is not. concerned in the cause and objects of the war. Our confidence in President Wilson’s statesmanship has been rudely shaken, and it does not appear likely that it will be restored to the j extent of-vesting in him tho power to j exercise the deciding influence on tho | terms of peace which the future doe- j tines of the Empire and the civilised j world greatly depend.”