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Show r UU , A BAD WINTER FOR EUROPE. Travelers in Germany hare reported report-ed every smokestack belching Bmoke and industry well restored, but a dispatch dis-patch from Berlin eay6 the two ghosts of cold and hunger are stalking through the German masses on the eve of what promises to be a winter of unprecedented suffering and -discontent. There are at present four million to five million needy, moet of whom are in the cities. It is most difficult to obtain reliable relia-ble information from Germany, This may be duo to the distrust which German propaganda created during the war. At that time the German government did not hesitate to issue false reports. But allowing liberally for propaganda, propagan-da, sufficient evidence accumulates to indicate that Germany is passing through a crisis and her people are suffering. Col. E, M. House, who was President Presi-dent Wilson's confidential aaMsor, declares all Europe is in a desperate plight. Even England is wondering what to do with its unemployed. There i not a bright spot, other than some Isolated place where the outside world cannot penetrate to Inflict In-flict Its gloom. |