Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-08-02 | Page 19 | Allied Successes Wreck Morale of Boches

j ALLIED SUCCESSES WRECK MORALE OF BOCHES Rhine Towns Grow More Hungry and Despondent as Huns Retire By Newspaper Enterprise Association AMSTERDAM I Aug 2 The The stamina stamina stam stam- ina of the Germans working in factory fac tory towns along the Rhine Is growing grow grow- ing ng weaker daily due to allied bo boin- boin n- n J food conditions and the thelong I long delayed victory So say travel travel- just returning from Cologne and ald other Bother Rhine towns Continual bombardment by allied Aviators of factories factories' and and railway sta fols Is having a tremendous effect on n th the morale morale of the people They are are deserting the cities by ind d. d donly only military force prevents the workers from leaving the la torie 1 i The resumption of the offensive I said one traveler helped considerably considerably consider consider- ably to lift the peoples people's hopes Bul- Bul I proclaiming the Annihilation of thousands of Englishmen and Frenchmen French I men v were Vere torn from the hands of the vendors Houses were covered with bunting and people shook hands I with each other crying We are victors victors vic vic- tors and shall remain victors I But the cessation of the rapid advances ad I vances and the counter attacks by bythe the allies allie have again caused aused a feeling feeling feel feel- ing of despondency People no longer believe the war will be over this I year I Food conditions are getting worse I all the time laborers can get no more than four pounds ponds of potatoes and two and one half pounds of bread a week Turnips and cauliflower cauli I I flower leaves are used to mate make soup with an occasional winter potato I thrown in Th Those se who cannot obtain I illicit rations are are always always famished I The police and espionage system i are growing worse than ever No one I can make a remark against the kaiser or the government without having someone at his back threatening him When the kaiser visited vIsited the Aisne front recently a a. a k man mim in a cafe remarked re reo marked Oh that ass He always arrives on the scene when the danger dan ger is over One of the men sitting next to him immediately notified d the police Trains of wounded are continually I pulling in from the the front As manyas many manyas as forty cars daily pull through the Rhine towns Persons are afraid to speak to the wounded as the police are everywhere to prevent the people finding out the true tru state of affairs Men returning from the front express ex press surprise at the food conditions but also remark that they have been c t off without food for days a at a time i Prisoners in these towns are re worked day and nd night at the lowest kind of work A. A recent strike by Russian prisoners was broken up on threats of solitary confinement for six months f I