GERMAN PEOPLE REJECTED.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13275, 2 September 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

GERMAN PEOPLE REJECTED.

The London "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent sent on May 8 an '.•■ count of a visit to Germany and I'el;in in just made by a neutral of high conlection, who said : "1 was in Germany about three month •„go, when hope was high; \ crdun had iot brought its disillusionment. iiut iow! I never could believe a natioua. pint could change so completely. there las been a veritable revolution in feeling iiid opinion. \\ lint astonished me more .han anything else was the outbreak ol feeling against the Kaiser. I could never lave believed such a change possible—to he German peuple, And not only the jeople. The same spirit of revolt shows tself among the others. The Kaiser, ol .•ourse, has his bands of supporters, both it the army and among the people, and 11 tliis fact I sometimes thought I saw ■igus of civil stnie, which is more and noie .threatening to rend Germany in wain. Very soon, unless 1 completely nisread 'he signs, it would be only pro vaiser and anti-Kaiser, and one side oi | .lie other will be driven out of sight. "At present, owing to the unwillingless of the great majority to show theii .eelings openly, it appears the pro-Kaiser party is the stronger, but once there is an open breach 1 believe the others will prove inmeasui.ibly more numerous and influential. If the universal and deep desire of the entile people had any power to make tself felt in the councils of Germany, then peace ought not to be far away. "As for the condition of Belgium, what strikes one there is the dreadful scarcity of food. For three months the people jf Brussels have scarcely seen a potato. 1 often wondered what was happening to the stores which the United States is sending for the Belgians. I did hear a story which gave me some idea of what is going