| Show Herd of of Stupid Sheep in Berlin Turned to Wolves WaIves Condition Held Appalling ll It ol c ce London March 29 The Tho Tho condition oi or Berlin grows steadily worse Apart pari altogether from tho the chaos arising from political conflicts tho the of th tho has become appalling Vice am and crime crimo aro arc supreme and thero there Is Jaw law nor order rho Tho robber stalks his prey b by day clay and by night and no on one In his own owr has liaS an any longer lonser a right property property- To this anarchy march according to the has now been alI added td a n now clement element Street of tho Slowest lowest typo trpo Is Increasing to alarming proportions In Berlin Tho situation Is simply scandalous Almost at every ery street corner one ono comes faco face to face with a perambulating ing Ing- gambling hell on wheels These cars not of or Juggernaut but of or Germans Germanys Germany's Ger- Ger mans many's share arc constantly followed and surrounded b by troup of or gamblers who ho k keep ep tho the roulette wheels wheel in un unceasing unceasing un- un ceasing action until the thc small hours houra of or the morning The Thc consequence Is that street malting making ner- ner brawls and md fighting are Uns Un's night life hideous while adding lar largely ely to tho already alread prevailing pro insecurity inI insecurity in- in security of or the streets which are aro I shunned by all decent people after F nightfall Like Stupid Sheep p pAn An Interesting lIng lIng- chapter of or past history history his his- tory torr H is recalled b by tho the Flensberg In answer to the question addressed to him In July Juh 1917 I whether r a revolution revolution tion were possible In Germany German Max Nordau said I Bread riots are arc possible but a revolution revolution rev ro I Is out of or the question Tho The s I German people rejoice in their slavery I and aro arc proud of or It Jt Their lords and masters have been shrewd enough to endow this thi situation with flattering I names The Ihor livery Is called uniform the servitude organization the tho blind deadly obedience discipline tho the abandonment abandonment aban aban- of or all rl rights all dignity all I character Is called heroic self 1 tion I This jud judgment ment of the German people peo- peo pie Is strikingly correct so far at atI I least as S tho the middle classes are conJ concerned con- con J corned i the folk folic who could not or would not seo see the government in al alliance al- al liance lanco with the military lords sold and betrayed the tho German people nor that wo owe our utter collapse to tho the in insane insane In- In sane Iono militarism which has hns held heM the j helm of or tho the state tate In Its iron grip forso for forso forso so many years t I Yet Incredible as it Jt ma may seem to any my one not a n. German tho the people of or J this country countr- even e n after tho the rotten fatten bankruptcy of or the firm of or Til Lu- Lu l d Co are arc actually again lending an ear to the Insinuations ana suggestions of or the pan Germans wino who J are arc once more anxious to go on tho the warpath or rather to Induce their stupid unreasoning victims to do o so for them regardless whether it lead to 1 their complete annihilation at the hands of an powerful all adversary Nordau was right the Germans araas are ara areas areas as a n. whole a 3 herd of ot stupid sheep People Ix Lost t t Faith I The Th Hamburg tUll till clings firm firmly I to the traitors home th theory the the- ory cry of ot n Germanys Germany's s defeat and not all the military and naval experts In the world will twill apparently change chango Its convictions convictions con con- What Is It that has brought about our downfall Not ot tho the enemy's military military mili mill tary prowess nor even en his tremendous numerical superiority but the weakness weak weak- weakness ness of ot our g government to which Is duo due tho the temporary loss of ot our peoples people's faith fath in their emperor Even en the finest soldiers in the world have their limitations and when our grays field who constitute Indisputably indisputably indisputably indis Indis- the most magnificent military clement element tho world has ever seen became became be be- e- e came camo aware of or tho the tragic betrayal of or tho the Imperial house on the tho part of dr the home str their strong arms were J paralyzed and as an Jn Inevitable ble result their efforts to crush the foe too relaxed and the Ignoble Ignoble- surrender from the ef effects et- et I 1 feats of or which we C are now suffering Buttering was rendered possible j I Even en now however though the I f foreign enemy may fetter us he ho cant cannot cannot can can- t not destroy a n nation of seventy millions mil ml- I lions unless ne we e ourselves render him Mm himI I executioners executioner's service Meanwhile ourt ourI our t I sort BOrr sorry fato fate Is not to be bo lightened bYI by I prayers and entreaties directed to the enemy but only b by promoting throughout through- through I out ut the empire tho firm will for tor na national national na- na lonal union and by inspiring the tho people peo peo- plo with A strength that will create a new and more vigorous state from the present ruins What is necessary Is courage and tho Indomitable will to rise superior to our destiny and to repay to the foo foe a n tho the humiliations humiliation to which he Is now subjecting us h I The Tho Berlin ln returns once more to Its favorite theme the tho wickedness of the tho British To win tho the war every even means at hand however dirt dirty was welcome to the tho En English This is a psychic trait trail which wo we Germans of or course cannot understand Ono can Imagine tho the as- as as astonishment of or a German camp commandant commandant commandant com com- mandant who on asking an English officer prisoner how tho the British people people people peo peo- could have o been persuaded to employ employ em em- plo ploy such guch means replied Are wo we not at war then 7 Another please phase of or English unscrupulousness unscrupulousness has Its illustration In the tho shameless campaign of abuse carried on against ag ua us by tho British press The London newspapers orl originated tho the word Huns Buns as 08 the designation for Germans They tried to popularize this appellation and did not hesitate to employ war songs and war novels no and even to seduce the theatres and anel music halls to that end For the sake of or the honor of or tho the English popular character we believe however that this linguistic abortion will disappear soon after attar peace Is signed If It it does docs not a n decent German German Ger Ger- man will be ashamed to shake shalo an Englishman's Englishman's Eng Eng- lishman's hand JOt o I of or Freedom The Solingen n gives Ives Ivesa a pleasing picture of or Fritz life lira In free Germany About thirty persons were thero assembled assem bled last st Sunday Sunda at the residence of or the thc jeweler in the he Gorman- Gorman to celebrate his wife's birthday birth birth- da day when three sailors and a soldier members of the Workers Yorkers and Sol Soldiers Soldiers' I council broke Into tho house and nn pointing revolvers ers at the guests ordered order order- ed cd all present to hold up their hands The They then searched everybody and having cleared their pockets of or money and papers ordered to open his safe sate from which the they removed remo tine fifteen en pounds in cash and amI f pounds in banknotes While tho the three sailors were thus employed their soldier accomplice hurled a n gas bomb into tho the corridor to prevent those in the from leaving lea to give Information a against tho teo thieves Tho The resulting gases Jases proved BO so in insupportable insupportable insupportable in- in supportable that three of or the l guests window leaped from a second story into the street with the consequence that a a. woman broke her leg and a man sustained a fatal fracture of the The thieves cs disappeared rell and have C not yet ct been traced T |
