CLASS HATRED IN GERMANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11749, 8 February 1919, Page 5

CLASS HATRED IN GERMANY.

' A remarkable letter has been found*in a cupboard of the surrendered “U”-boac 105 at Harwich. It was written by a member of the Hun crew and addressed to “My British Brother Sailor.” The letter says:

Germany would have stood up another year without Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey helping her. This is the Jfpoint. Tne German people all had more real patriotism, |Jhnt reH i patriotism was lacking by the leading classes. They made it their point t© reat fortunes. No matter which way the Fatherland ; was [difting they didn’t care how much the lower classes was suffering under the hardships of the war. The rich themselves could buy everything as in times of peace, only the poor had to starve. No wonder they grew more and more discontented. When they attempted to raise their voices they were quieted down like traitors and unpatriotic lot. The rich were squeezing all the fmoney they ["could out of the people like you would squeeze an orange. . . Soldiers refused to do their duty, ‘‘first a few, then more, and at the same time the whole Fleet Then the leading people saw, with astonishment, that they, who thought themselves Almighty, were powerless. Inside twelva hours the whole system broke down hecanse is was undermined. } ‘No friendly linked the ftwo! classes together. Each bad lived for themselves. The rich class had looked fdown [upon the lower class about 'in the same way like an ordinary man will look down upon an ass. Now they pay the penalty through losing the war. The German capitalist got beat by the English, the German labourer will also have to pay anyway.