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Show SIGNS OF GERMAN WEAKNESS. All is not dark in the war. although I the Germans are just completing i h i r third drive since March 21, havins .gained much ground and captured I many men. In a review of west front conditions j a writer who, in regular bulletins has I displayed knowledge of conditions be-yond be-yond that of the average military correspondent, cor-respondent, offers the following assurance assur-ance : "The maintenance of a solid front by a defending army is a true test of its morale. There are some undeniable symptoms, that indicate the approach of the final day, be it lone delayed I The capture of Cantigny by us despised de-spised Americans was truly" galhnq the allies are surely craininR contr.il of I the air. The promised huge food supply from the Ukraine failed to materialize but instead further food resti measures have been issued and are I creating unrest; such reports have emanated from sevehal neutral countries. coun-tries. Prisoqers deserting to the allies' al-lies' camps report unrest in the armies, ar-mies, many signs indicate faint hearts among the German troops. The bold expressions of plain truths contained con-tained in the Socialistic press of Berlin Ber-lin with no effort of suppression by the authorities are symptoms of changed conditions at the capital. The government govern-ment seems cautious lest it arouse distrust in the assurances fed the German Ger-man people of Russian and western front conditions. The influential 'Vor-waerts' 'Vor-waerts' mercilessly flays tl;e sovern-menl sovern-menl upon then Russian policy and there Is no question but that they have bunglea. Although the polic- h,i . be postponing the eventua1 explosion at heme it is constantly ur-klng mort certain a cementing of the better Russian Rus-sian elements to eventually resist the depredations of the common enemy During the early part of L10 war Ger many levied no extraor dinary taxes, rlaj'j-ng to reimburse n-r depleted treasury and -etire war b.i.d by in damnifies. More recently excise taxes have been imposed, tho burden of which falls up' j luxuries ;:nd ncn es-som es-som : is. No v there are tome new taxation proposals increa.ng radically the existing o"Jes and prouding for some extreme additional asdcesmenta; the doubling of postage, increasing '.eiegraph and parcel raUs, etc. 'Go Larefoot this mmmer and help the Fatherland.' oiararded in Germany is repotted from loth Swiiz-dand and Holltipd. Swe.tcn heretofor; showing Teutonic leaning has lately been solicit: so-licit: us of our friendship. They of all ffSuirils shou'd appear tr, btU interpret inter-pret the shifting, complicated, intem-c ,tional situation. The unit 0f allied action is the vcrst military blow to Germany; the nded control of raw mn- erl.ils Is their worst economic blow. It is too soon to prophecy but not too ODD to watcj internal German developments devel-opments from v hlch sour-e the nd Is likely to be forced." |