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Show GERMAN VICTORY I IS PREDICTED Socialist Leader Certain His Country Will Win War, With Indemnity. CAN EXIST TWO YEARS! Germany Has Plenty of Hogs and Cattle and Can Increase In-crease Rations. St STOCKHOLM, via London, March 27 Dr. Albert O. Suedekum, one of the best known leaders of the majority major-ity Socialists in ihe relchstag, in an interview here with the correspondent of The Associated Press, said that who over thought thn submarine war was going to bring England to starvation; In six months was deceiving himself 1 He added, however, that such a result Was not necessary for German victory. Which he declared was certain, with; indemnity Dr. Suedekum said he whs convinced that England hitherto "had been sending send-ing only enough troops to the conti-i nent to keep her allies contented, but that now it was necessary for her to chango her course. He declined to hazard a prediction on the result of the possible participation of America in the war on the side of the entente, but added: "Anyhow America has been virtually virtual-ly in the war practically since the be-Kinnine. be-Kinnine. If It had not been for American Amer-ican ammunition the war would have ended in 1915." Germany Can Hold Out. In reference to a statement attributed attrib-uted to former Ambassador Gerard, that the food situation might affect Germany's military strength, Dr. Suedekum Sue-dekum said: "There is not the slightest danger of that, even in the improbable event of the war lasting a year or two more If other foods fall we can inwease our meat rations. We have 1 7,000,000 ! swine today, and tho normal numbt-r before the war was only 19,750.00(1 We have about 7,500.000 cattle against a peace normal of about 6.000,000, or 1,500,000 more If necessary we could butcher all but a minimum number of', brood animals. "The extreme cold of the last weeks made it impossible to transport potatoes, pota-toes, and we had only one or two pounds weekly for each consumer in the big cities. If the people had been required by regulation thus to limit consumption they would have considered consid-ered it impossible, but when faced with hard necessity they did it with the result that we have an additional month's supply of potatoes on which we never reckoned It is true that we are short of food, but we are not starving." bpnt in Karty. In regard to the split in the Socialist Social-ist party Dr. Suedekum said: "The small minority which broke away from the old party is merely a sort of Bafet ale for bloving off the pressure of discontent. There is bound to be a certain number of disgruntled' individuals and malcontents in every part even in normal times, and naturally nat-urally much more so in time of war These people must have an outlet fori their discontent and the seceding Socialists So-cialists furnish this outlet. The secession seces-sion movement is of no consequence, the seceders themselves being split into various croupp. I predict these llvisions will disappear with the com ng of peace." Dr. Suedekum is recognized as an expert on municipal problems and is vel known in the United States, where le delivered a series of lectures in : 191. At the outbreak of the war he I vent to Italy to trj to persuade the talian Socialists to support Italian in- ! ervention on the side of Germany ater he was decorated with the iron ' .toss for his services at the front. oo 1 |