Show WAR AR DEFEAT ADMITTED BY ALL GERMANS Even Elven Proudest Follower of Kaiser Forced to Ac ede FOOD RIOTS COMMON tn Industrialists Gain As Middle Classes Sink Lower r BERLIN D Dec C 1 A M A Iven Even the bitterest enemies ot of o the who have lave been most in- in In Insistent In their declarations that Germany docs does not realize she has lost the war would probably feel Ceel that Germans very generally re- re re realize alize their thelt defeat If It they could ee ee the average German family sufficient food toad in the I Ung for t o of ot unemployment currency collapse and Indisposition of at pro pro- pro producers of ot ho holand Jurers to exchange products land for tor paper marks which may mayhe maybn maylie he obtained by the 1 billion In ex- ex cx cb ie 6 for tor a single dollar hui former Chancellor Cuno told American newspapers that Germans realize they lost th the tho sar ar h voiced no untruth There Thero ma may flae been millions of or Germans ho ho had come Caine to that 1 be- be before toro bc-toro fore foro the mark declined to a point where here a a dollar brought one mil mU- million mil million lion marks but when hen the felt Cell the the tho th value alue of ot the Rus- Rus Russian Russian Rus sian ruble German pride had bad such sucha II a t fil I that even the most recalcitrant recalcitrant trant followers of the kaiser ex-kaiser cx nele bumbled humbled Industrialists maY mav have profit profit- profited profited ed by oy the drop In the mark marks as is gner charged abroad bankers may have reaped a big harvest harest they have made extensive Im pJ In their buildings and ond ideo fabulous sums in paper ros inar s for betterments but the as of at the a average middle middle- middle class class family cannot be questioned by bv a foreign observer er who rn kes a study of ot the conditions in Ger Ger- Ger- Ger Germany many especially In the cities CID TO The middle class has been re- re re reduce duce ducs I to penury With mth the following the closing a ro of ot so many factories because ot of the lack of ot fuel and nn ra raw materials mate- mate rials and the upset condition of the laborers an and their families are r rd getting into the same distress that has hitherto been confined largely to collar bite folks Most o t factories which have hare not erl are working part time and tie the wa wages es have not kept pace with the decline in the mark and the increase In the price of fuel and foodstuffs The unemployment unemployment ment doles arc Insufficient to sup sup- supply supply sup ply ply en cv n bread to the a average arage family fam- fam lly ily Food riots are an even day occurrence In ln most populous cen- cen h ter Tile The average German mother ro- ro re realizes I as she never realized tore that German Germany has lost the I The despair written on the faces O ot or women omen in the markets when hen hey Inquire the prices of meat and potatoes and find there billions of at arks in-arks will not buy a single meal for their children is a tragic dem dem- dem- dem demonstration demonstration of that thai realization PO PD POS S PARE rnE BETTER BErrER Rural Bural Germany tares fares better than the tho cities and larger towns The peasants hae ie good bood crops and they have little sympathy with Ith the food food- food g Ir lr the cities That spells to them It If they go to cities with alth ther prod produce e they fear they will be attacked by the food toor rl rioters and ana robbed of their pro pro- pro pro-duco duen dUCA Milk dIk and butter and meat are obtainable in the smaller amaler town tOW ft anid country and the gentry gentT Is relatively not badly situated for tor forthe tile the moment But their time Is COMing when gold taxes must be and collected to meet Ger Ger- Germany's many's obligations When all al re- re realty realty re realty alty begins to bear the burden to pay Germanys Germany obligations rents must be advanced to a point Ich wil I drive drie home the sting of ot de- de icat reat TOURISTS STAY AWAY who come to Ger Ger- Ger Germany Ger many with the Impression that Ger- Ger Ger Germans mans are hM having basing Ing a ely easy time and are escaping the conse n of the war soon re- re rc that the average mans man's lot lotIn lotin lotIn In Germiny Is pretty hard And tho average womans woman's lot Is harder Keeping a family fed and clothed I Is Isa laa a maddening problem In these days das of at Incomes and fantastic prices I Shabbiness and want lIre are re In such that tho the few Cew tour tour- tourIsts touristS tourists who vho Invade Germany do not stay stav long It Is Ia l a poor place tor for a pleasure seeker There can be little doubt that the threat t ret majority of Germans ot oi all cla now realize they lost the war They realize it with great tor for the most part per per- per perhaps laps haps This bitterness directs itself against the French The UnIted States and Italy are sel- sel seldom sd- sd sel seldom dom mentioned England Eng is h I ox- ox cued ox cued In a measure British of ot the French occupation ot of the Ruhr ha has haq softened the tho attitude towar toward England Ingland |