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Show GERMANS DEJECTED, SAYS SWISS REPORT Expected Paris to Fall Quickly as the Hun Leaders Predicted; Situation Becoming Alarming. GENEVA, June 18. The enthusiasm created by the first German offensive has passed, and a feeling of profound dejection reigns among the German people, peo-ple, according to an interview with a neutral diplomat who has just arrived in Geneva from Berlin, says La Suisse. The people at home expected a quick victory from the early reports in official offi-cial bulletins, and, above all, a quick peace. The principal question asked in Berlin last week, was: "Have we entered Paris?" The economic situation in the interior of Germany, the diplomat declared, is becoming more and more serious. Germans, both military and civilians, now realize and virtually admit that the constant arrivals of fresh American Ameri-can troops will turn the tide of the war. The diplomat concluded his interview with a statement that during a recent secret sitting of the rcichstag, the question ques-tion of autonomy for Alsace-Lorraine was discussed officially for the first time since the, beginning of the war. |