ANOTHER WARNING TO THE BRITISH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 9178, 29 June 1915, Page 6

ANOTHER WARNING TO THE BRITISH.

GERMAN THOROUGHNESS NOT

REALISED

LONDON, June 28

A neutral author writes as a result of his visit to Germany:—" I do not believe the British have any idea of what they are up against. While England is talking about munitions, Germany is making them, and is especially concent rating on high explosive .shell's of increased size. English people ask what German Socialists are doing to stop the war. Most of them are lighting. A iierlin magnate said: ' Oili" Socialists are useful to. humbug the English, and do us no harm.' The Allies might Kith advantage, copy the Germans. Four or five men are entrusted with absolute power to order tilings to bo done, and every day spent in discussion gives the Germans time. "We neutrals renr England under-rates the cunning of her foe. and does not realise that- she is always plotting .mechanical find chemical 1 surprises. You take the whole thing, too easily. In little practical ways _ the Germans are learning from the mistakes of the svar. In-England soldiers spend much time in marching and moving about. Throughout Germany, half-recovered wonnded non-commissioned officers are "lecturing to and teaching soldiers exactly what to expect at the front. There is little inarching., the troops chiefly learning how to hide and handle machine-guns, make concrete, bury barbed-wire —one of the new forms of German defence—and other practical things. I believe the equipment has Jwen entirely revolutionised."