GERMANY'S DESPERATE PLAN

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 6

GERMANY'S DESPERATE PLAN

; • i y An "Kxpress" correspondent In Belgium t< |j state*, on the authority of drst-hnnd Infor- h 8 niatJon tbut the Germans have now thrc-o ! plans for their earning petro.it from Finn .(1 i dors. They are now concentrating a force lof 'JOO.OOO of the Landsturm in n fontflea position in and arotrad Antwerp in order that they may be enabled to make a firm in stand iliere wnen the Allies hurl them v- back. , )0 "If we aro repuleed In Flanders," said a | of German lieutenant recently, "we Pball re- ] .1- treat at once on Antwerp, rot oven at- | Pβ tempting to defend Gheut, but our defence i o- of Antwerp will be desperate, and It will t n. rake years to drive us out. as 1 expect we i I* j fhall have tive army corps there. WTici , D" tile time conies, all civilians will set -I i of hours" notice. :ind will havo to leave An.- i IW werp to prevent them from to help ; a the Belgians. As it is, wo are Ratherlng t s troops here, bin the troops will not I" , , allowed to come Into the ,-liy. The , slurra mon are confliiod to the outside, forts, j where they are -working day and ulgnt with , B, the sappers eonrpleting the defence works . 211 and mining every farm. They have been , especially busy rebuilding the for; invatlone j ,I up to the Holland border, which , have now been reconstructed and equipped , n-jtli t!ie latest devices. Almost Invisible te cannon have been placed lit subterranean | **. jiositions, many of them being directed on , Antwerp, which will "be des'royetl if neeeet=s ! s.'iry. Uur defrace of Antwerp will be our ( p I last stand In Belgium. If we are driven , out our name as n military nation will sink ! into oblivion." , 1( i ' At ntiffpl. uenr Aniworp. Hip (ieruuin | of : S a1.,.«.rs .lug sn-it diteh-s ..lonpslde th,- ( ,y, I railway. E.ver.v ni«lit trains from the n Ysor were stoppeil at this point, and ~r the budlos of German soldiers were thrown J. pell-mell in the ditches, whijh were I hoi: | 3 b fllled up. It is estimated '.hat more ihnn ' }]. 10.001) were Ilnis burled. iiz '•Drnessels is now entlrel.v mined iind ' ready to be blown up the very minute we are nbliser) to retire." declared a Oermail major in a lady Belgian ' who has jusr • reached I'aris. "I don't believe." Tie added. - c "we will ever have to ••rac-iato Relclum. t j. but if we must do so the world will renJl.'e a . that I.oiivnln wiui Just c Muglc flower. Brussels will be Uu tiouauet," . i <