DECLINE OF GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 5

DECLINE OF GERMANY.

AMERICAN JOURNALIST'S IM-

PRESSIONS.

ARMY'S' MORALE GONE

SERIOUS FOOD OUTLOOK

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, Sept. 3

Mr Cyril Brown, the "New York i World's"" 'Berlin correspondent, \\hf> has lately been'in''Stockholm, has returned to New York. Interviewed, he> said: "Six months ago Germany was at the zenith of her fighting power. Today . she has definitely passed the zenith, and her power shows a- continuous downward tendency. The Germans are now giving up hope of a victorious military decision or an early peace-. For the first time, in the war they have completely lost the initiative all along the line, and the German people know it.

"The army's morale has suffered relatively more than the people's morale; only picked troops retaining the olcE spirit. The morale of the great bulk of the army is affected by the fear of impending: defeat. V

"Food conditions are ho. worse: tbatt they were six months ago. but' they will be mi^ch more serious in the late winter and early spring, when acute starvation conditions will increase tho pessimism caused by continuous military reverses."