GERARD SPEAKS.
THE CONDITIONS IN GERMANY
RIOTS POSSIBLE BUT NOT '
REVOLUTION,
Australian and N.Z. Cabin Association.* ! (Received April 28, 11.25 = a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 28. In denouncing Mr Champ Clark's opposition to conscription Mr Gerard said if Mir Clark liad not suffered constitutionally from cold feet he might {now have , been President. '• Referring to the conditions m Germany, he aid it was absurd to expect a revolution there. Tlie American newspaper men m Berlin had misled the German people respecting American earnestness, consequently the Germans wreiji) astonished' when tho United States declared war. The caste system m., Getmany had fooled and misled the people continuously. Riots were possible but the real truth, about the war would not be known Germany certainly intended te attack America if the -war ended indecisively or m A German victor}'.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 3
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