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Show I GERMAN PAPERS ARE HYSTERICAL Possibility That Germany May Lose the War Beginning to . Dawn on People. AMSTERDAM. Sept. 30. (By the Associated Press) The German press today Is hysterically emphasizing that the need for cool heads never was greater than now. The possibility never nev-er before entertained or visualized, is beginning to dawn on the people that Germany may lose ihe war and the suddenness of this realization has had a bewildering effect. The Zeitung Am Mittag entirely approves ap-proves as wholly appropriate to the occasion the sensational editorial printed in Vorwacrts last week, dealing deal-ing with what would happen should an enemy succeed In invading the fatherland. fa-therland. It makes an assertion remarkable re-markable for this newspaper, saying: "Our government throughout this terrible war has sedulously avoided hinting at this and the other possibility, possibili-ty, namely, that the Avar may be lost if everybody and everything are not united in the utmost effort." Government Has Veiled Situation "The government has thus itself contributed to veiling the pravily of our position during these "four years of war," the newspaper continues. "It has preferred tp lead the nation In blinkers blink-ers past the abyss of danger to our national life." The Rhenisch Westphalian Gazette shudderingly contemplates the ,Bul-garian ,Bul-garian situation, "the last and highest wave" and suspects that the Bulgarians Bulgar-ians after having got the Dobrudja region re-gion of Rumania have no further use for Germany. Bulgarians are Justified The Frankfort Zeitung expresses regret re-gret that the government failed to Impress Im-press on friend an foe with "truth" that Germany did not go Into the war out of lust f&power.. This newspaper news-paper freelyAplts that the Bulgarians Bulgar-ians are Jufcfiwtl in feeling war-tired and thlnkfaifre Bulgarian people will stand by Premier Malinoff. Finally the Frankfort 'Zeitung begs the government gov-ernment to make for peace, "unequivocally "unequiv-ocally and sincerely." Troops Bitterly Needed The Dusseldorf Nachrichten bewails the fact that troops will have to be sent to Macedonia from the west front "whoro they are bitterly needed" Its Bister "publication, the Essen Allge-molno Allge-molno Zeitung, speaks of "bad news poming thick and fast" and repeats its previous assertion that the Germans Ger-mans must be strong. Later on in its editorial the Essen Journal falls into bitter abuse of "blaspheming "Wilson and his mob of lynchers." |