Item 59: Internment camp diary, November 1917-August 1918 - Page 41

<p>[Page 41]</p><p>with the Ukraine in the meantime.</p><p>31st/1/18.<br />Since the beginning of the year, calls for more soldiers to the front have intensified in England. The attacks on the western front, especially at Cambrai, seem to have exacted enormous casualties. The government is asking for a review of those previously declared unfit for service and of those workers who had claimed to be too indispensible at home. Lloyd George even had to stoop as low as to lobbying the representatives of the trade unions in Westminster Hall in a blistering speech. Of course, we Germans were painted once again as the biggest bandits and rogues and the most dangerous people in this world, and if we couldn&#39;t be defeated, England would perish. That meant to go on or to go under. The situation must be dire if the English prime minister has to adopt such language to be successful. The English Labour Party, especially the mineworkers, will have to sacrifice a few more bodies from their human pool after all, despite their resistance so far.</p><p>In Germany, however, the situation isn&#39;t much better. The unrest, stoked</p>