GERMAN SOCIALLISTS BLAME RULERS FOR WOES OF FAMINE AND WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14196, 13 January 1917, Page 4

GERMAN SOCIALLISTS BLAME RULERS FOR WOES OF FAMINE AND WAR.

TORONTO, December 15. ■ A special cablo from London to a ioiSonto paper says: — > ■ f Light on Germany's pciace proposal is given m a violent Socialist pamphlet taken | from a German prisoner by a (Canadian. It is of pai'ticular interest as .lfcVreveals' a grave state of unrest m a ! lai'geJ section of Genriny's civil populaifaptti,; naming various Big cities, such as Hamburg, Osnabruok, etc. ' r ' "Headed by the single wprd 'Hunger' m .black Gothic type/ the pamphlet fiercely accuses- German rulers of senselessly plunging the nation into the wai\ It deiides vOn Bethriiann-Hollweg's explanation that Britain js the cause of thel famine^ and 'declares the scarcity of 4«od is an inevitable, result of the insajie'Jdea of Var bh-^Briiain, Ffance and Russia^ It pojrtts puf; that neutrals are now- shorty and even' reduced iii places to jtwiting |Lul*hips themselves, thus lessemng exports; In Germany and Austria the situation' is 'hdpeless, aiid Turkey Ms ' scai-cely able to feed her own ■armies. ' •"' '. '.'.':■' ',"... ' '■' "' "The pamphlet declares ihe German aristocracy,, the wealthy and the food! dealers do not feel the famine, which is shwly starving the masses, and says that the military and political leaders have been deludtp# the people wjth lies about ' viotories. All their assurances ■a>bout x gettiiifj food' from conquered terri. tcjries are _lie=i. German levies ' quickly exhaust this^ food, and now the people are starving m Serbia aud Poland. "The- indictmeih't admits that Germany is able to continue the war for a while, but points out that the resuljf will be, m addition to the slaughter of the battlefield', hosts of women and childresudcad and starving. . W " 'Now is 'the time- for action to «top, the war,'- concludes/the address, appealing! to all Getman Socialists to this end." . ' - ;