BRITISH SUFFERERS IN GERMANY.
[To THE Enema or THE " SPECTATO8."]
Ste,—May I through the medium of. our paper make known to the public what effect the blockade has had on one individual ease? It must be only one of.marsysimilar ones. This oepect of it has not been brought•forward in the Press, as the increasing menace of Bolshevism iethemost obvious one.
My only sister, -a born British subject, is lyingmeriously ill its a German hospital, her condition being diagnosed by a specialist as being the result of the,lack of nourishing food, in other words semi-starvation. She married seven years ago m German officer, who was killed. early in the war. She has lived since then practically alone in her country house, waiting for permission to come home to us. She.has, of course, had-great difficulty in getting the necessaries of life; how diffieult it has been I realize now on hearing of her illness. She will get all the care it is possible to give her,-but her condition can hardly be improved, I fear, till she leaves Germany. Surely it is a short-sighted policy to reduce the Germans to 'the desperate state that Russia was in when ihe made a separate peace. Do we also realize how many of our own ,people in Germany are suffering pangs-of hunger and having.tolisten to -the inevitable accusations of our " inhuamnity "?
The:report of the Army White Paper published a week -ago shows how terrible conditions in Germany 'were in -January. From a Christian point-of view one can hardly reconcile one's mind as to the " right judgment "of allowing thingslo go on in such a way. Are wo not also losing our much-prized name of generous conquerors, and at the same time is not the " beaten foe " turning- into a wild, !unreasoning ntaniae?—,I am,
[No humane person could fail to sympathize with-ourosture- spondent. In respect also of the need for feeding the ,Germans Lack to health, physical and political, we -agree. Mut there- is -another side to the matter. What madness of the Germans to
rput ,obstaeles in our sway When ;their -salvation commit come -without our aid! Till the !last possible:moment they 'resisted our plan 'of using their merahant vessels for conveying food to Germany. The Germane omit& also do more tto relieve the admitted asareity if :food were distributed more scientifically end more hansstlys—En. Spectator.]
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