Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-15 | Page 3 | War Will Not End Quickly

WAR WILL NOT ENDJUiGKLY Norwegian Writer Believes Germany Sunk Too Deeply in Perils to Show Hand. MISERY IN EMPIRE Official German Encroachments Encroach-ments in Russian Provinces a European Scandal. CHRISTIANIA, Oct. 1. (Correspondence (Corres-pondence of the Associated Press.) "It is my conviction that the war will not end quickly and that Germany is so deeply sunk in perils of all kinds that she does not venture to put her cards on the table." These are the words of a newspaper newspa-per correspondent, Gustaf Joseten, just returned to Gothenburg after spending fifteen years In Germany. His experiences are being published under the title of "uncensored descriptions." de-scriptions." "What misery," he exclaims, "nave I not beheld in Germany during the last year of the Avar old men and sick persons dying of slow starvation because be-cause the meat they received Avas unfit un-fit for human food; half famished young boys dragged aAVay from their homer, to fight against, strong, Avell-fed Avell-fed nren; soldiers Avives looking like live skeletons for they never have the means to buy tho rationed "foodstuffs Avhich can be spared them by the men." "The expression of truth," he continues, con-tinues, "has been more and more harshly restricted in Germany." "A European scandal," is his characterization charac-terization of the so-called emancipa- Ukraine. "I have witnessed," he relates, "most of these emancipations and I knoAV what 1 am saying Avhen I make use of strong expression. The exhaus-of exhaus-of these lands may be defended by the sufferings of the German people but there is no defense for the official German encroachments on the rights of these people to their independence."