INTERNAL CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13895, 22 October 1918, Page 5

INTERNAL CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

ALLIED AIR AID INTERFERES WITH WORK AT ESSEN. ALLIED ADVANCE LESSENING. METAL SUPPLIES AND CREATING MUNITION CRISIS. KRUPPS USING ODDS AND ENDS WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS AT THE FRONT. VIOLENT TIRADES AGAINST THE KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE. COMPLETE DESPAIR REIGNS THROUGHOUT THE LAND. (The Tiif.es.) Received October 21, 7.t0 p.m. LONDON, October 20. Reports from Hague, state that defensive works aiomr the RhThc between Cologne and Karlsruhe have been started. Life at Essen has become terrible owing to the nightly air raids. Many factories have been wrecked, and the workers crowd underground. There is a shortage of material, and the Allied advance towards the Briey mines is also reducing the output. No doubt Germany's munition nisi is acute. Krupps are accused of using odds and ends from rubbish heaps, with disatrous results at the front. Scenes in the streets beggar description, with their many sobbing women and screaming children. Violent tirades are beard against the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, but the people do not seem to have sufllcient physical or moral stamina left to take matters into their own hands. Complete despair reigns, though there are here and there little bands of stalwarts who wish to die in the last trench. VON TIRPITZ BLAMED FOR HAVING CAUSED THE WAR. (United Service.) Received October 21, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, October 20. Captain Perseus, the German naval writer, in an article in the Tageblatt, violently attacks Admiral von Tirpitz, asserting that the naval programme created the real ground for war. The battleships were always inferior to the British, and von Tirpitz frivolously assumed the fearful responsibility of the submarines. All attempts to hush up his guilt will fail miserably, and the public, will punish him.