The Times of Wednesday gives an interesting account by a
Swede of a recent visit to Germany. When asked what was the strongest impression he had formed, he replied that what struck him most of all, outside Berlin and other large titles, was the isolation of the people. "The people generally know nothing about anything." This isolation was due to the Censorship, which was very clever in keeping all in ignorance of everything that might give rise to inconvenient reflections. 'Any- thing more meagre than the German Press could not be imagined. " Berlin," he went on, " gave an indescribable impression • of war weariness." It was not only the civilian population, but the soldiers also, wounded and unwounded, who had the appearance of being mentally and physically fatigued. A curious change had come over the women. Instead of looking up as they did before to the stronger sex, they now have an air of fearlessness and conscious self- control If this goes on, The Caravaners will have to be rewritten.
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