GERMAN POLITICAL SITUATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14703, 7 September 1918, Page 3

GERMAN POLITICAL SITUATION.

FEARS FOR CROWN AND DYNASTY CHANCELLOR LIKELY TO RESIGN. (Reuter's Telegram.l AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5. In the Prussian Upper House the Chancellor, discussing the Suffrage Bill, appealed for an understanding because he was honestly convinced that the protection of the Crown and dynasty was at stake. In connection therewith the Government saw no possibility of approving the Bill as sent from the Lower House. The latter'B scruples about the introduction of general equal suffrage must be subordinated to the protection of the dynasty and the Crown. PARIS, Sept. 5. It is reported that Count Hertling intends to resign. TROUBLE BREWING AS GERMANS FIND THEY HAVE BEEN BETRAYED. (By William Philip Simms.) With the British Armies m France, July 29. — Barring the worst hard luck imaginable for the Allies, the German armies never again will be able to drive forward with the punch they carried when they opened their series of 1918 drives last March. To-day, the starting point of the fifth j-.year.of. war, it seems to me to be merely a question of time before a forced retreat to defensive positions will have to be carried out m the hope that it will [be possible to obtain peace before tho stream of arriving Americans so swells jthe forces of the Allies that an unconditional surrender will be forced. It is an open secret here that it is becoming increasingly difficult to fill the German field depots. Boys of ,' the younger German classes cannot be counted m the same class with the Americans who are daily arriving m such numbers as to nullify Germany's new crop. Evidence m the hands of the British shows that Ludendorff fears political results from too quickly shoving boys into battle. The German people who reluctantly consented to participation by these youths to gain the promised victory are beginning to feel they have been betrayed. Opposition is growing to the giving up of remaining sons for cannon fodder. Manifestly there is a question of whether Germany is not now putting up a colossal bluff while trying to hide hopeless conditions behind a wall of imitation steel.