| Show MOST M 0 A S r GERMANS GERI aan S ARE aft LO FA lu NOW U unbalanced A L A N C T U U F 9 swiss back from leipzig fair report 90 per cent mentally twisted ARE bewildered BY CHANGES declare U everything Is 19 in disorder and street are lined with wah begging 10 and behave like children t ane ic A number of oc swiss merrt stints ints who fur for years past have I 1 ion barly attended the famous leipzig fair have now just returned lini baldly able to express their nt at want flat they liei SUM saw there it was not that there was nothing to interest thein tit nt tile the fair but that while they were lit in germany they could hardly bellevo that hat they were not lit in some other country they did not quite know which the UK merchants i chants manufacturers and others tit nt the fair with whom they had to deal scented to be mentally a need alced ninety per cent of tile the people with whom I 1 hall had to deat said raid ono one merchant really did not know what they nhoun lit in visiting tile the various exhibits tn tit leipzig Lell izig I 1 would give ghe tin nn ordie order for something I 1 would tell the ninn man in III charge that I 1 would take say GOO gross of a certain article no 1 I would the alio number down myself and aien ot of course I 1 expected him to write it down don too then I 1 would order something else and by the time I 1 had fill dished giving my mi orders I 1 would ask to compare my notes with ills his then to my great girot I 1 would find he 11 e had either not written down the oriler ut till all or hud hall written thein dottai nil 1111 wrong mental confusion at first I 1 thought I 1 had inci cl IY to LIO do with fill it i careless individual but lit ter wards I 1 found that nine little out of ten tell persons were in just the same state slate 0 of Ill confusion I 1 theia talked to of tile other swiss who were visiting the lie fair nod and found that they had atad similar experiences I 1 lot lost co and spoke very to ono one nitin mail whereupon lit lie slimily arole down and bald lie he was sorry but lie had been four years lit in the hie trencher trench eq unit that lie wn ana no longer capable of ills his work n no lio lie did it before the war judging by all that these met chants observed in germany this men inon till ill weak 11 ess and Is affecting not only men who liao have been a long time in the trenches ches but also civilians Chi civil lians lans women who were tit at hoine and men who for ono one reason or nil other were never nt at the lie front some germans known to these before the war at as shrewd capable business men now they MJ talk like children no as if they knew nothing whatever of the outside world or what has been taking place during tile last four foul or live years in ili short the german merchants merchant seem inked bewildered and confused nt lit present and du do not know what they aro are doing what particularly struck till nil these swiss merchants who have known germany for many years past was the lack of orderliness everywhere not merely tit nt tile alio leipzig fair but in ili the streets street sn a change for lite alio woran w Is upon now by 1 l visitors to germany in ili tile halls ot of tile hu grout fair which before bogoro the war used to t 0 be nent na its the proverbial now new pin disorder und even dirt I 1 anro re everywhere I 1 tile tho streets leading to tile lg fair were tills this benr lined with wound ed cil crippled and blinded sold soldiers lers sell I 1 ing postcards bool laces bild till nil annil I ner of other trifles or playing barrel organs with their cups calls on oil I 1 file ground before thern fo for r people to throw in III anything they c conail uld ifford biere anil and tills this in a country Ni lic rc cants never used to IP ile to I 1 a t e d act like children every swiss herclia lit who went to tile ho Lell leipzig izig fair tills this year afis allowed by the govert government inic lit to anico him twenty two pounds dounda of provi one with I 1 talked took with will him five pounds of chocolate knowing want it precious gift it would ile he to some of ills old in visiting ono one of tile lending leading jurers ito ho pre presented three of ills his daughters with half a pound ouch tho girls grasped him toy by lite lie I 1 bild 1 with tears in ili their eyes we 1 ia vent seen anything like it for years they said it will make us well one evening this swiss merch ruit with two others ans sitting in one olle of tho best restaurants lit in leipzig 11 1 ind hid walked around tile baldes offering postcards and matches for anle ho wits very sickly looking arld the swiss merchant put ills lined in III liln ills cont coat pocket 1 took out it n block of choc 0 into about half a n pound and landed it to him film immediately nil tit alin guests in the tint got up lip ciul auld surrounded tile lie ind gazing with it I 1 nt at tile homo of asked tile swiss how holy lie limit aged to got get it kven well in 1 alio I restaurant lio lie said tho people who collected around tile hoy boy will belin believed ved like dill chit dren all this to what to ta now being more and moro clearly lecog luit the anvar arid its conditions have caused a more or loss less abnormal lue lital state in III tile caso ot of many per soni |
