Show i RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IS DREADED BY BY- GERMANS 1 j French Journal Points Out That Generals Must Combat Corn Com b bat t Winter TROOPS IN PROTEST Failure allure of Submarine Warfare Warfare Warfare War- War fare and High Hili Prices of Food Disc Discussed LONDON Jan 11 Evidence Evidence that the German malcontents are not confinIng log Ing ng their efforts to protests in the reichstag is forthcoming in the shape of a small page four-page newspaper printed print print- ed in Gothic characters headed with the he German eagle and the tile title Die which has ha fallen into th the th hands lands of a royal engineer near The contents of this production evidently evidently evi evi- dently Intended t to Circulate among the German troops are aro not calculated to cheer them upA up A front page article is headed The Coming Winter Campaign Die Kommen Kommende Kom- Kom men mende de and it it- gives a lurid outline of the troubles which lie ahead of German the armies In their winter warfare against the Russians As a consequence of the skillful withdrawal of f the Russians it says the German troops will have to fight tight not only against the Russian generals but also against the pitiless Field Commander Winter S C The warfare that was waged last winter in inthe inthe inthe the flooded districts of the gives only a faint picture of of the battles which soon will develop in the swamps of Russia Another article deals in an equally equally- discouraging style with the German submarine warfare declaring that there is considerable disquietude in Germany because e so many y submarines es fall faU to re return return re- re turn to l harbor r o v Their opponents know why observes observes ob oh- serves the tle writer and they also know that Germany possesses fewer submarInes submarines rines noes today that she did at the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning of ot the war In spite of the fact that In the meantime she has built a large numb number r of them The English English English Eng Eng- lish admiralty has found excellent means of beating of off the attacks of German submarines but it prudently keeps the knowledge to itself The so-called so blockade of England has become more futile than ever Germany Germany Ger Ger- Geri i many may go on confidently with her submarines submarines sinking sinking unarmed merchant ships and passenger steamers but she does thereby more damage to herself than to her enemies She suffers a moral and material loss combined com corn Und Under r the h heading The Censor In Germany a third article gives specific Instances s of the way in which it al alleges alleges alleges al- al leges the German authorities not only suppress unpalatable news but deliberately dellb- dellb er tely falsify falsity articles in th the Tress Press to give to the p public an erroneous Im Impression impression Impression Im im- of the state of affairs Headed Head Head- ed Die Hene- Hene rung and usury in Deutschland Deutschland Deutschland Deutsch- Deutsch land another article discusses the alarming increase in the cost of of Jiving in Germany giving extracts from German German German Ger Ger- man newspapers showing how two di divergent divergent divergent di- di explanations are offered by opposing Journalistic schools of thought for this serious state of affairs One section of the press declares that the cost of food is due to actual I shortage against which any measures taken by the government are Ineffectual ineffectual ineffectual I while other organs declare there I Is food enough for the empire but that I the dearness Is artificially produced i through the usurious profits exacted by the merchants against whom the government neglects to take drastic action From the Kolner is quoted an instructive letter from a German erman soldier in Belgium who complains bitterly bitterly bitterly bit bit- terly It is sad very sad when we wesee wesee wesee see how the Belgians in spite of our possession of their land live much more cheaply than our dear wives and children at home and many a father of or a family thinks anxiously of his dear ones ones The Tho excessive prices asserts this retailer of disagreeable truths the actually restrain the consumers consumers con con- sumers cumers from buying as much as they need in order to live properly and consequently consequently consequently con con- foodstuffs in spite of their scarcity are spoiling in the hands of the greedy merchants This spoiling has ha assumed such dimensions that that that- as the le openly declares there declareS there has now developed a trade in n spoilt foodstuffs foodstuffs' T The e same Journal is quoted d. d in commenting commenting com corn on an advertisement of oC cwt t of meat for sale as cattle food as making the bitter statement While at present huge quantities of ot meat are eve everywhere spoiling which often hardly hardly hard hard- ly can can c'an an be disposed of as cattle food the eople are no longer in a position owing to the high prices to be able in many cases to eat sufficient quantities quantities quantities quan quan- of meat themselves The writer closes an article with the prediction An extreme shortage In the nourishment of tIle the German people is only a question o of oC time it is as certain and as the financial distress |