THE CENTRAL POWERS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14860, 6 September 1918, Page 6

THE CENTRAL POWERS.

CijSftMANY'S .REALISATION OF FASLURE. . .

APPREHENSIVE o}' ERSSIA

POLITICAL CRISIS APPROACHING. . ■-

'(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, Sept. 4,

Mr Cyril Brown, formerly Berlin correspondent oi! the "New York World," writes from Stockholm:—The Germans realise that militarism's super-blow; for peace -and victory struck in the West has. completely failed, probably marking Germany's last serious attempt to win a decision on the West front. The Germans are beginning to fear that real •war may break out again in Russia, and ! the spectre of two war-I'fonts haunts j $hem like a- nightir.arc. I Tho- peo])ie arc bo^jn.uin/.!; t'p iVaMscthat Germany has) no'c. a friend in the i world. They are also ioshi^; i'.-iiih in] the.'Hincioiib.urg and l.a;ioi»dorff coiu-j bination. j The people, now uiidorst-and something of the pace with, which America is changing the balance of man-power again&t Germany. It, is certain that the- rnoro democratic representatives in the Reichstag v.-ill not knuckle- down to the dictatorship of'militarism much longer. I anticipate that the most acute politico! crisis of tht> war will occur in

Germany in the near future.