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Show OMMANDS GREAT GER I MAN FLEET Grand Ad miral Hans Ludwig Rcismund von Koester, head of the German Ger-man navy who is in charge of the North sea flotilla Ad miral von Koester was the kaiser's personal representa the at New York's Hudson Tulton celebration and is the president of the German Navy league GERMANY IS FACING TEBBIBIf Flli Provisions of All Kinds Becoming Be-coming Scarce and Ruin Appears Certain. By O F BERTELLI, Special War Correspondent of the In ternational News Service who Writes of the Developments of the War From the French Viewpoint PKIS Aug 11 Famine and eco nomic ruin faces Germany at the pres ent moment Absolutely rel able pri vate information has reached me con cern ng present cond tions in the cm pire She is cut off from the entire world and her food euppl es are already giving out "No cereals are reach ng her the Russian front er be ng closed and the Berl n author t es are now des perately try ng to br ng in the stand ng crops bv fore ng 100 000 al ens pnnc pally Russ ans to work in the f elds w th the women and children Under theso cond t ons it is not to be vondered at that the ka ser s forces are f ght ng on empty stomachs Thus the emperor s war madness is already bring ng over the whole empire a bla t ng wae of hunger and d stress After the general war had broken out Herr Azzas tl e soc alist deputy sa d in the re chstag The mper al pol cy is responsi ble for the torrents of blool now drench ng E rope Those who put th s pol c nto act on m st take the ent re respons b 1 tj V e tr ed to 1 cep pace t th France but we fa ed and we ru st f ght non to de f nl ojr frontiers but tc know wl o has bro ght m sery on mill ons of o r corapatr ots is de fron her din nlshlng wheat s pplj Gorn an now has onh eggs eno gh for two lavs and ey few cat tie Pr nee Buelow who this week wrote m the lian burger achrlechen says Even if the entire world were peopled witl de nons the Gem an j eople would defend the r plaoe n the sun B t this warlike spirit and personal sacr flee cannot o ercoruo the despair of the brcadless army sent ngainBt France hose troops are splendidly sup pi ed with food |