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Show I GERMANY IS NOW I INMDCWTRESS H But People Have Confidence Hj in Their Leaders and Will H Endure Hardships. H i PARIS, June 9. That tho German H crops are not promising and there Is H great privation in Germany, is the re- H port Dr. A. Aguero, Cuban minister in H Berlin since the opening of the war, H brings. H Dr. Aguero cites the internationally H known restaurant Kewpinski as hav- H ing been an offender and says the H proprietor of it now is serving three H months in prison after having paid a H fine of 50,000 marks for serving extra Hj bread. lie also mentions the aristo- H era tic hotel Esplanade, the director of H which now is serving a sentence of B a year in jail after having paid a aim- H ilar fine, having been convicted of H o . serving items of food not on the menu H No Eggs to Be Had. H "Eggs." says Dr. Aguero, "are non- H existent, as also is milk. Vegetables H are excessively scarce and rare foods H are not to be had by persons of tiny H purses. A small meal costs from 12 H to 14 marks in the restaurants. Slxty- H five grammes of meat cost 4l marks, H an order of vegetables 2V marks and B soup z mark." H Dr. Aguero then passes to choco late, coffee and tea, which ho also characterizes as non-existent. Ho declared de-clared that fruits are as raro as vegetables, vege-tables, because the supplies have been requisitioned by the government for the army. "For every element of the civil population, pop-ulation, regardless of the social class to which it belongs," Dr. Aguero continues, con-tinues, "the daily ration at the time of my departure consisted of 250 grammes of bread, 35 grammes of meat, 350 grammes of potatoes, 10 grammes of fat and S grammes of sugar One egg monthly was allowed and ono portion of war marmalade monthly. Of this quantity one received re-ceived less rather than more. Little children and invalids, tho latter on presentation of medical certificates, can get milk when there is any." Milch Cows Disappear. Regarding livestock in Germany, Dr. Aguero sas the 11.000,000 milch cows on hand before the war have decreased to 6,000,000. TheBe are suffering from lack of food, while tho averago milk given by each cow has dropped from seven and eight liters to four and five liters "Germany before tho war," says Dr. Aguero, "had 27,000,000 head of cattle, cat-tle, 10 per cent of which were sacrificed sacri-ficed in November, 1916, and tho number num-ber has since fallen to 19,000,000 Thirty per cent of the 25,000.000 swine have been slaughtered since the war, but the number of swine has risen to 20,000,000 on account of tho prolific qualities of the animal. The 5,000,000 sheep have disappeared entirely, while the 1,500,000 goats have fallen oft to 3,000,000." Small Prospective Crop. The coming crop, says Dr. Aguero, will be very mediocre, because all tho labor has to bo performed by women and French and Russian prisoners The soil also is suffering from a lack of real nitrates, the nitrates artificially produced being far inferior to tho previously pre-viously imported product Ho estimates esti-mates that production has retrograded at least 27 per cent per hectare. Having recounted these facts about the German situation, tho Cuban minister min-ister continues to make it plain that privations have not as jet affected the German morale, and he warns against counting upon such a contingency. contin-gency. The German, he says, accepts and consents to submit to dlsciplino which the Latin would not think of enduring. "The German," the writer continues, "thinks he must fight to the last ditch and the last man, because ho believes this war is a matter Is life or death for Germany. He believes that If he is vanquished, Germany will be divided di-vided among Franco, Russia, Belgium, Italy and Denmark, and that all remaining re-maining will bo small portions of Prussia, with Berlin as the capital. "This idea has been propagated from top to bottom In all classes of society by means of the press, In public conferences, con-ferences, in schools, universities, ly-ceums ly-ceums and moving pictures. This opinion has been driven Into the head of every German citizen, and nothing can eradicate it. Why the Confidence. "The German people are an obedient and disciplined people But do not deceive yourselves, do not fall Into the too common riror. He is not obedient and disciplined from tho spirit of servitude, serv-itude, but from hjs confidence and faith in tho canacitv. skill and sunnr- lority of his chiefs. "That is the prestige of the Prussian Prus-sian bureaucracy, and It is the same for all Germany. In Bavaria and Saxony Sax-ony the mentality is the same, but I do not say that this is the immutable state of mind the day when, the German Ger-man people become convinced of thp lack of skill of their leaders. When they perceive the fallibility of imperial imper-ial leadership they will not support It any more." They .Want Peace. Regaiding German peace terms and aspiiations, Senor Aguero declares that the bulk of the Germans do not rare much what the conditions are, for they want peace ardently. The soldiers sol-diers and laborers would accept any peace one would give them, for they are suffering and are weighed down by the accumulation of mourning. On the contrary the upper classes of society, according to Senor Aguero, differ aDOut peace, the liberal thinkers and social democrats desiring the condition con-dition before tho war, the conservatives, conserva-tives, Catholics. Junkers, nobility, agrarians and officers shouting for indemnities in-demnities and enlargements of the frontiers. Senor Aguero then portrays the sublime confidence placed by all Gei many in the submarine warfare and its certain effect in the minds of the Germans in starving out England and France. , |