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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TELLS ABOUT HIS TRIP ABROAD new: 'IN SPRING % T A. J. Bethea Gives Interesting Ac- •oant of Conditions in the Conn- trtas Through Which He Traveled —Searched in Germany—Heard BBagltohmen Debate. A. J. Bethea, lieutenant governor of Sonth Carolina, after undergoing many hardships and disagreeable &?- perlences as a member of the Fqrd peace party, returned to Columb'a Sunday morning from New York, where he landed Saturday after a , tempetuous trip across the Atlantic •*on the liner New York. The following interview was given out hy Mr. Bethea: From the day I left New York till my retarn yesterday my trip was a * continaous round of trying, but thrill ing, experience. It seems almost like a miracle that I, am left to tell the story. I found the bitter cold in the Scan dinavian countries too much for me, and in Sweden I nea ly succumbed to its rigors. It was in Stockholm that 1 was seriously sick for several days, < auing me to miss an earlier boat on my return trip home. A terrible storm at sea still further delayed my ar rival. The trip over was without particu lar ineident. except for the two days and nights in the harbor at Kirkwall, when we were prisoners of a British man-of-war. It is not an easy feel ing *o have tok-pedo boats lurking around and pointing their guns at you, hut that U the penalty ay liave to pay who paw. that way these days. Ungland has literally swept the seas and tied the boundary line beyond which no ship dare cross till she gives the word. The danger cone, in which many mines are afloat, also gives you a ticklish feeling, and is not good for the nerves if you can not sleep. W« landed In Christiana. Norway, and found an interesting people and country. It was the height of the winter season awd everything was white with snow. Thousands were giving their time to skating, the great national sport: which consist of slid ing over the hills and mountains of snow Sweden likewise was in the grip of winter, but at Stockholm theuw was a warm welcome to a beau tiful and thrifty city. Wages and goods are high. This is true in all the border neutral countrteo. Times are good in Nor way, Sweden. Denmark and Holland, but, of course, there are many inter est* that suffer from the war. An Aa America, so in these ooun- trten, there Is some division of sen- Mmoac on the question of the war. Hu* It seamed to me that in Nor way, Denmark and Holland sym pathy was with the Allies, while tm (hreden It wss with Germany. has aa old grudge against i and the other central com- we afraid of the growing power in Germany la Copenhagen I left the Ford party to hurry home. To do this it wag aneMsary. for me to have my passport vised for belligerent coun- trlna. Only as a special courtesy from German and English consuls was 1 able to accomplish this, for our coun try, except In rare cases, grants no passports to belligerents countries^ and orders have been issued against it. But 1 had good luck and this gave me a chance to see Germany and England at first hand in a state of war. It also gave me the unique ex> peiience In getting in and out of Ger- ^^Miny at the present time. They take ^Kofhing for granted. It matters not ^^bat credentials or passports or let ters you bear, nor who'you are. You muni submit to the test before you p&as. And you can bet that when the Germans do a thing it is done thor oughly. They tallc* little ^and ask but few questions, but when they are done with you, you know that you have been examined. ’In my case every article was taken from my baggage and examined with the utmost care, tmoks and papers and pictures were taken in charge and peroxide of hydrogen and other medicines I had were emptied upon a heap of coal in the belief that they were either in visible ink or explosives. The baggage itself was observed with great scrutiny. Still not satis- tied two officers escorted me to a pri vate dressing room and I was told to uncover. I took off my overcoat, then my coat and stood up before the officer and asked “How far?’’ “Keep going,’’ he said. I continued, and later repeated my question. “To the skin,’’.he replied. .*«, When thus stripped the bottoms of my feet and my back and my head were examined. My clothes, my shoes, my overshoes, my watch, my purse, nothing escaped. I came away impressed with German efficiency, and yet it was all done with courtesy and order and system and dispatch. I also visited many places and saw a good bit of German life, as I mingled freely with the people, and yet from the time I entefed German territory until I left it my whereabouts were always known. You may npt like their method of warfare and you may oppose their hard military system, but one thing ,Js certain, vou can hot visit G’ermany T did anil come away without feel- that they are & wonderfully skil- . and efficient peopte^—without •deling, too, that some of this effl-' rienry would he a good thing for America. ... From Germany I passed on throagh Holland by way of The Hague and crossed the North Sea to England The North Sea la literally a bad of submarine* end mines end no ■hip dara* to eroao'la the-night Hindus and Chinamen ^Virtually Ex- eluded Under Terms of New Measures. > Drastic restrictions would be thrown about Japanese immigra tion, and the Hindus as well as Chinese virtually would be harhed from the country by a provision written into the immigration bill which will be reported* ', to the House next week. I The new features relating to im migration from Japan would have their most far-reaching effect on>.the immigrant committee whose compe tition with American labor In the Pacific states has aroused a pro nounced anti-Asiatic sentiment. As agreed upon tentatively by the committee the exclusion section of the bill includes a paragraph barring “Hindus and all persons of the Mon golian or yellow race and the Malay or brown race.” Before a report is made to the House, however, a pro posed qualification probably will be added providing that there shall be such exemptions as may be set forth in any “existing agreements, as to passports or by treaties, conventiens, or agreements that may hereafter be entered Into.” For several years representatives from * the Pacific states have been fighting for legislation to exclude Japaneee, Chinese and Hindu labor ers. Two years ago the House Immigra tion committee agreed that in order not to burden the pending immigra tion measures with an Asiatic exclu sion issue there should be a separate exclusion bill. The measure later was dropped, however, at the sugges tion of state department officials, Who held that it would seriously complicate negotiations with Japan over the California alien land law. Exclusion of Chinese and Japanese students, business men. travellers and certain other excepted classes, is not anticipated by member* of the committee, but the bill is expected to put into legal form and amplify an informal agreement entered Into eight year* ago by Secretary of State Root and the Japanese ambassador, under which Japan agreed, not • to issue passports to Japanese laborers emigrating to the United States. Other provisions of the bill would raise the head tax on immigrants to eight dollars, and would increase the penalties. Both fines and imprison ment would be authorised for offend- ers, and any steamboat company bringing an alien later deported would be* requested to refund the cAst of his trip. Both the Asiatic exclusion section and the literacy test provision of the bil lare expected to precipitin a vigorous debate when the measure come* up in the House. The require ments for a literacy test has caused the failure of three previous immi gration bills through presidential veto. mine after mine. I passed within sight of Ostend, now held by the Ger mans, and could hear the continuous roar of the cannon from the trenches near Flushing. In England I visited the House of Lords and the House of Commons and heard Lloyd-George and Sir Ed ward Carson speak on the compulsion enlistment measure. Ttte country is beginning to real ise that It In at war, and both the people and the powers that be neemi renolved now to fight to a finish. I saw thousands of soldiers, both In Germany and England, who had been or were-getttag Tendir ttr go to the front, and the general opin ion Is that both sides are planning for a supreme effort in the spring. As I have already said, my trip home was a terrible nightmare. We encountered a furious storm at sea. which blew from ninety to one hun dred miles and which lasted for twanty-four hours. The lifeboats were swept away, small leaks were sprung, much crockery and furniture broken, the ship badly torn and sev eral passengers and crew slightly hurt. . One of the crew was thrown over board, ’but recovered himself by means of a ijfe rope, to which he was fastened. My cabin mate and I felt certain that the ship would go down, and there were many others who shared in this opinion. It Is Ao won der that I am glad to be back in South Carolina in favored circum stances and among my friends. But you ask me xyhat of the Ford peace expedition? Did It do good or Hot? Measured •'by motive and pur pose, my answer is emphatically “Yes.” No one - can measure in fluence. No one has a right,, to say that a movement such as this is of no avail. If you believe as I do that every good word spoken and every good act done is taken into account and blesses somebody somewhere at some time, then r think that a move ment for world peace, however futile it may seem, must be credited with being worth while. Of Henry Ford as a big hearted, unselfish man too much can not be said in praise*. He has set the world, and especially rich men, a great ex ample. He is willing to spend his fortune 7 , as he told me, for peace and has demonstrated to' the world his in terest in a great cause. Then, too, the public must remembeft that bis peace efforts are not finished, and no one can .t.ell wfrat .may yet be accom plished. I heard him. say that If he could only scratch the surface In the movement,, if he could only end the war a day sooner he would be willing to make any sacrifice of money and means at his command. has caused the Jiatl&ns of the earth to think and talk for a little while pf peace. That in Itself is worth while GEN. WOOD SAY$ SEAS COULD NOT STOP INVASION STORM SIGNALS ARE OUT In Our Present State of Unprepared ness a Force of 150,000 Gould In flict Incalculable Damage—Says We£$eed Two Million—Only Ob- 'Jr*'*-* m « tain able by Compulsion. Gen. Leonard Wood told the Senate military committee that the coast line of the United States was open to attack by any well organized foreign army despite its equipment of forts, mines and submarines, and that the oceans formed no serious barriers to invasion. He declared that in the country’s present state of utter unpreparedness for war, & trained force of 1!>O,O0O men couM inflict Incalculable damage before ah army could be assembled to meet it. .Events of the European war clearly demonstrated, the general said, that the sea was the best medium for the movement of troops, and he pointed out that a force of 126,000 men, fully equipped, had been landed at Galli poli from a single expedition of 98 ships against submarines, mines and an underwater screen of barbed wire that fringed every available landing place/ Emphasizing his conviction that troops can not be improvised to meet regulars, Gen. Wood declared the fundamental basis of any policy of adequate national defense must be the principle that with suffrage goes an obligation for military service. Such a policy had been advocated by George Washington, he said, and if it had been adopted Canada would have become part of the United States in the war of 1812. “Only once In our history have we been prepared for war,” he added. “That was immediately after the Civil War, when we had 1,500,000 trained soldiers. Our diplomatic cor respondence with France concerning Mexico was very brief. It required only one note because of our prepar edness. They were told to get out and they got out. “There is not going to be any weakness abroad after this war is over. You will find that more male citizens will have been born than have been killed or injured. You will have all the gold, perhaps, but It will not do much good unless you stiffen it with Iron, As to the immediate needs of the regular army. Gen. Wood expressed the opinion that the force of regulars with the colors should be maintained at 210,000. Of these, he said, 20,- 000. equipped and supplied In the year’r time, should be kept In the Philippines: another 20,000 in Hawaii and 15,000 at Panama. He urged that the regulars should have a reserve system under which in a six year's enlistment men would be discharged whenever their company commanders reported them as effi cient into a reserve, to be definitely assigned to war stations Equipment for membera of the reserve would be kept at their stations and once every two years they would be required to Join the colors for ten days' training to keep them up-to-date. - Gen. Wood said that if universal military service was not to be obtain ed ho favored a continental army scheme substantially aa proposed by the war department, provided hr absotnteTy divorced' Prom Titt organized militia. The increases for the regular army proposed by Secre tary Garrision, however, he charact erized as “ absurdly inadequate, ” particularly as the proportion of field artillery. He recommended that the proportion of field guns be fixed at five to every 1,000 rifles or sabres. The present army standard is 3.9 per thousand, 'STthoirgh in actual e- quipment the regulars are nearer two per thousand. A board recently created in the war department has fixed on 5.9 per thou sand as. the number necessary. The United States would need at least 2,000,000 men in case of war, he, declared, and they could be ob tained, he believed, only by comp, sory service. At present there w ; but 700,000 modern rifles &. S 300,000 old model weapons in gov ernment arsenals, he said, and up to fivd days ago the capacity of Ameri can plants to produce rifles only 32,- 000 a day. England Alone, he said, wanted 65,000 a day, while France called for two rifles In reserve for every man in tho field. Gen..Wood was positive In declar ing the militia was composed of a fine personnel, but cursed by a hope less system. Unless it-could be taken over by^ the government and absolute ly severed from any connection with the states, he said. It should be aban doned to the states entirely and not a dollar of government money be used upon It. Undet a universal system, the gen eral said, there would be 500,000 men between 18 and 25 yeuTB of age upon whom the burden ol military duty would rest, counting-on only 50 per cent, of the men of that age. He believes, however, that every citizen should be held liable for some duty to the government in case of war. “Gen. Wood,“ asked Senat r Cham berlain, “an untrained army never could have resisted Germany in France could it?’’ __ ‘ < “They never would have known what hit ’em,” answered Gon. Wood. A vital factor In thp present situa tion, he told the committee, was the necessity of building up an officers’ VILLA CLAIMS INNOCENCE OF AMERICAN MASSACRE Volunteer EludM.CarraiuaAstM and Brings Chieftain's Story to Border. Major Teodoro Prieto Saturday reached the border with the follow ing statement from Gen. Villa. “I say, In the days when I was in power, that I still wish to retain the American people in my confidence. “It was last Sunday when I first heard of the massacre of eighteen of your countrymen by armed Mexicans near Santa Ys&bel. Carranza's whole army and the power which he pro fesses to enjoy has not worried me as much aa the news that several of your countrymen had been murdered by my people. x - ; “I knew nothing of this massacre until slg.d&ys after it happened. It Is untrue that I have directed my men to murder American citizens. "To prove my Innocence In the matter I personally sent a body of cavalrymen to the Santa Ysabel dis trict to try to capture the men re sponsible for this massacre. "Although 1 have no friendly fuel ing for Mr. WilSOta or men who sur round him, I am not cruel enough to take innocent blood to avenge my anger. ”1 will show President Wilson and his cabinet and the American people that I, Francisco Villa, am fighting for principle and that he Is an honor able man; I will show Senor Wilson that his recognition of Carranza is a mistake, because I will prove that Francisco Villa’s principles are the dominant principles in this revolu tion; that they are friendly to Mexi cans as to the people of your country. “Please give tirls message from me full publicity. I want to reach every 'mother's heart and every intimate friend of the men-who were so cruel ly massacred on January 10 by my countrymen. Carranza officials in the Santa Ysabel district may be found as much responsible for this murder as my men. 1 will capture the mur derer! and bring them to justice.* “I have ridden hard five days from Western Chihuahua to carry word to the United States that Gen. Villa is innocent of the massacm’’ said, the officer. "Furthermore, he 4old me to say that he will execute the men who did It If he raptures them, even though they belong to his own group of followers. We were then at El Rucio in Western Chihuahua. “He called tor a volunteer to carry word to the border of his Innocence of the murder and also hia deter mination to punish the murder*!** If he catches them. I was chosen to tarry the message I can not reveal where 1 crossed the border, because on my journey 1 had to dodge several Carranza patrols and I expect to re join Villa. “The general is gathering men about him in Weetern Chihuahua and he will soon be strong enough to re new the war. The rumor that he was captnred Is false. Villa will never be caught by these clumsy Carranaa- Istaa. He knows the mountain coun try too well. If he Is ever made prisoner, it would be after he is dead.” i ♦ WILSON FORCES ISSUE ONLY CHANCE OF TEUTONS WILL DIE WITH 1916 ENGLAND WIN BY 1917 “Neutral" Observer Outlines Hto Views Concerning Get manic Condi tions—Food Scarce, Men Rare, Finances Poor and Total Col lapse Will be Reached by End of Year. • -t •: The New York World publishes this dispatch from Milan, Italy. We copy it tor whatever it is worth: “Either the Germans will win definitely by land during the year 1916 or the British by sea In 1917. Thus think and fear the Germans themselves.” President’s Tour to Give Prepared ness in Foremost l*ubUrlty. President Wilson's determination to talk to the people of the Middle West oh national preparedness has restored that issue as the uppermost subject of discussion in congress. For several weeks preparedness has been overshadowed by the Mexican situ a-, TTon and International questions re- This was said to The New York World by a well known neutral whose books have a wide circulation In Scandinavia. This man, who wishes to remalp anonymous, has returned ■from several months spent in Ger- xnany, and especially in Berlin, Ham burg and MUhich. He is writing a book of his impressions, and below is the gist of them: “You have no Idea of the hatred and the fear—Germans have toward England. Remember, fear as well as hatred. Having accused England of starting the war, they now accuse her of wishing to carry It on to a decisive end. The Germans know well the English, their failings and their vir tues. Above all, they know their cool and determined perseverance. If the Allies can continue the war only through 1916 the Germans hope to win. “Grinding their teeth, Germans de clare their worst—blows -have come, from England. Before the war Ger many had 1,000,000 square kilo metres of colonial possessions. Near ly all this has gone; they have lost their Went Africa, lost Togoland, lost their Pacific possessions, lost Klao- chow. almost lost Kamerun. Eng land has destroyed their colonial em pire. 'Before the war Germany had 2,- 000 merchant ships with 80,000 sail ors on the high seas. The English have captured, sqak or caused to be interned all these. The German flag has disappeared from the oceans. Be fore the war GMwnany exported 12. 000,000 marks' worth of stuff and imported 13.000,000 worth. England with her blockade,-baa destroyed thla enormous commerce. Industries which do not work directly for war supplies have either gone bankrupt or ceased to pay dividends. Even the Berliner Tegetblett's commercial re ports show that la true. “The English blockade has done far more than Germans admit abroad, while the attempted blockade of English ports by German subma rine* ia an acknowledged failure tg Germany. Th* English have sunk be tween sixty and sevsnty submarine* in the North Bee end are ruining Ger many's trade with Sweden. With the Balkan campaign, Ger many tries to lunaeh the blockade, but even getting Into Arta will never give her the sea. And the German* know that by the sea this war will be wow In 1917. In 1910 Germany may yet hope to win by lands. Therefore the Germans pre pare a huge attack in Klaadere to reach t'alai* and an expedition against Egypt. suiting from the European war With the president about to tour the country to arouse the public to the nation's military requirements, administration and opposition lead ers realize that lively times are ahead on Capitol Hill. Democratic leaders in sympathy with the president's preparedness views are gratified that the chief exe cutive will take the field, inasmuch as there has been apparent in con gress a tendency to adopt a waiting policy by many members, uncertain regarding the views of thfelp constit uents on the subject. The president's tour, it Is believed, vwill sefVe the double purpose of bringing out pub lic opinion and stirring up the legis lators. BOOTY OF CENTRAL POWERS Vienna Makes Summary for Period of the War. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News says that the total booty of the Teutonic allies during seventeen months of war is summed up in Vienna as follows: „ «• “Nearly three hundred thousand ‘‘‘Nearly three million prisoners, ten thousand guns, forty thousand machine guns, while four hundred and seventy thousand square kilo metres of enemy territory hgs been occupied.” At any rate the Ford expedition reserve corpk: With 4M0» students ' * In the land grant colleges under KIP' power of suggestion. In this time of madness when a wot id la ablaxe with war It la a good thing to think of' peace, talk of peace and to work for peace. The world woaU be a aaeh better'place In whiei to Urn If we had more men of the type of Hoary Ford aa4 tf we had them there wonM bo Uary training, and crc-.j important higher educational institution organ- for it carries wKh It th* wonderful Jzed for training officer*, he thought It would he an easy thing to build up a forco of 50,000 reserve officer*. • • Asked what need there was now for preparedness -that did not exist a year KEd. O**. flood said there wore storm signals on all 0 * On tho gnostion of yards if mounted for a forty-five de gree elevation. The trouble was with the gun carriages, he said, which limited their fire to fourteen thou sand yards, whereas European navy craft were sinking ships at over sev enteen thousand yards. He placed the United States navy fo rth among those of the world powers, Great Fri- tain, Germany and Japan exceeding it in strength. The general said belligerent gov; ernments were buying by the tens of thousands the Lewis machine gun, invented by an American officer of the coaaj artillery,-now retired, and rejected, hy the'ordnance bureau fa cause of faulty material used when /fated. This gun, a one-man weapon, he explained, ante-dated the one-man machine gun of the German army. ^,'To ahow some of the work under way by the army, Gen. Wood exhibit ed to the committee tho confidential plgtfl for the defence of Bonfxzh. com pleted recently, taelndlag a line of defence eighty miles la length Ho said tho civil engineer* of tho cona- WILL EVACUATE IF BELGIANS MAKE Washington Hears Hurt < Planning Evacuation and Indemnity. Information has been received la diplomatic circles In Washington that Germany is considering making Bel- Ktum a proposal of separata peace. The evacuation of all Belgian terri tory would follow.; It is understood that the proposal, which will be made to King Albert )y the military governor of Belgium, w iU include an offer to pay for th* property damage caused by the Gor an occupation. Officials in close touch #lth th* German embassy expressed the opin ion that the offer. If made, prob ably would be accepted. Belgium la not one of the signatories to tho document to which binds etaolnnna document to which Sir Edward Grey obtained the signatures of the French and Russian and later the Italian governments and which binds those nations not to conclude a soparaio peace. The restoration of Belgium, wonld leave the Allies no room for protest, in the opinion of this authority, In asmuch as it has been thin one point on which the Allies have been most Insistent as to conditions of peace. It can be stated authoritatively that the question of voluntarily with drawing from all the occupied por tions of Belgium—on tho one condi tion that Belgium first consent* to conclude a separate peace with tho central powers—is now being care fully considered in official ctrelee la Berlin. It Is pointed out that tho conclu sion of such an arrangement would accrue to the advantage of Germany in many respects. Announcement that the restoration of Belgium le being considered by Germany followed the disclosure that the Pope has recently made such ac tion a condition of his offering his good offtcra for -the re eetahfisbment of peace. Curiously enough, this statement was forthcoming from th* British embassy. “Germany is not yet depressed she is bad humored. Germans are how grumbling at the chancellor, the socialists and the Russian campaign If you ask me what controls Ger many's mental attitude. I should say ‘Anxiety about to-morrow.’ “Germans no longer hope to make a separate peace with any one of the Allies, no longer hope for a Rusalan revolution or an English colonigl re bellion; but they know that the war will be decided by fighting. But when? Must it drag on through 1917? Men are getting scarce. • “Even'taklng the official returns which come out three months late and take no account of slightly wounded men, Germany loses 150, 000 men per month. Up to Decern her 1, 1916, their losses will be 4,500,000 men. This leaves them but a little over 3,000,000, including the classes of 1916 and 1917. At least 1,000,000 of these mutft be used for auxiliary services. The problem is disquieting, beca .se they can’t take any more men away from agriculture and industries. During last Novenf- ber alone the number of women em ployed • in metallurgical works and transport rose from 140,000 to 155,' 000. “The Austrians have ordered the use of all their resources in men. The Bulgars scarcely suffice for the Bal kan front. They can’t take the Turks into Germany for the French and Russian fronts, because they will be wanted for the Egyptian campaign “The ever-lengthening German front Is the more dangerous because the Allies are ever meeting it. Rus sia can, have 10,000,000 or. 12.001).- 000 men under arms by spring. Only France has put all her available men under arms. England and Italy have large human resources yet. “Of course, the Germans ijave Ttieir .munitions and heavy guns. But this advantage is fast disappearing because the' Allies are doing the same thing; The French clung to their light guns till last spring. But they are making heavy cannon fast as they can. The Germans know thlg Mnd regret It, saying their vie tories were owing to heavy artllle: •Take flnahcflTTU IRA ATT underrated Germany’s financial re sources; now they oveymtp the Food U both dear ana scarce Augustus Winning, secretary of the Socialistic party, told me that vtetMlling problem has ceased to come a national question and 1* now n hamaal Larisa on*. -Ha i hat th* fact tho Germans have ac •art' to I try The withdrawal of German troops from Belgium, according to offletels of the German embassy, would mens ust so much grantor military strength for use In the near Bast It Is understood that tho preooat Ger man plan Includes guarding the possibility of a permanent sea blockade by England. If tho preooat territorial gains, from Serbia to Bag dad, can ha bald, the Germans be lieve they can prosper commercially, even If their sea-home commerce Is Indefinitely stifled FAQNti SERIOUS Hard for te Get raemlt of The Greek government fanes a ous problem ta sapplylag Its at Berras with food as th* n th* blowing ap of railroad bridges hy the Entente nines la northern Ore***, and may be compelled either to with draw or disband certain porttow of thorn troops, according to h Rooter dispatch from Baionlkl dated Jan uary IS. The destruction of tho railway bridge at Demlra H laser has created a sensation in Greek circles, cotttng off as It does all communication with eastern Macedonia except hy th* mil itary road, which bridges tho Stroma at KaraaenH and aloftg th* sea route by way of Kavala.” the dispatch tlnues. “Th* population at and th* large concentration of Oreok that region pendent on Salontkl for euppHoa.’ KILLED MAnV hB HOME Georgian Objects to Alleged tag Henry Williams, forty-five, of Montgomery, Ala., was shot and in stantly killed at nine o’clock Friday night by M. P. Reaves of Waycroee, Ga., at the latter’s home, according to a statement made by Mrs. Reaves, who witnessed the killing. Reaves, it was said, came home un expectedly and objected to an alleged insulting remark made to Mr*. Reaves. Reaves, it was reported, got a shotgun from behind a door in the room and fired at Williams, the load tearing William*’ heart into shred*. best mep have lost weight and strength, and therefore working power, owing to scanty nourishment. Even rabbits—domestic one*—have been registered by the State.. There are milk tickets now in many dtieo. Holland sends in huge quantities of acorns; first the tannic acid i* ex tracted from them, then they moke bread of them. Tallow is eaten In stead of butter. No wonder the Gw- i mans are bad tempered. There is enormous speculation In food. But the government dare not irritate the agrarian and rich lend owning classes. The government has not even ventured to tax them on their war profits. And this proves to me the weak part of that much vaunted German organization. A bat ter merchant in Berlin made a net profit of 20,000 marks, per day on butter when I was there. But the government think that If the rich add their discontent to that of the poor a revolntion would be the speedy re sult. ’ ’ The soldiers are no'longer well fed. On the Swiss frontier, in Altar tia, I saw their coffee for breakfast, watery sonp and hard black bread at midday and -black coffee at night— nothing more. They no longer talk of going An Paris or invading Eng land. They ten yon thoy sraai: to go~ home to their wives and children. ’ "A curious order has been issued in Germany and Austria, saying that women punished for having lore af fairs wHh prisoners of war wfll hear that pi native f r ' » '* i ~ j