WANING MORAL OF THE GERMAN TROOPS.
GIVEN NO REST BY BRITISH GUNS AND AIRMEN. (Received 0.15 a.m.) LOXDOX, Juue 21. Wounded soldiers arriving in London confirm the newspaper correspondents' statements respecting the waning moral of tho German troops. It is very noticeable along the Western front how readily the Germans surrender. Some of the best disciplined troops are kept in hand, but the overwhelming gunfire frequently caused them to desire to become prisoners. The fighting spirit is most distinctly lessening. The Germans, in sheer ruthless malignity, fire large naval shells daily at Rheims, Arras, and Bapaume, and these places are in ruins. X'obody is living in Bapaume. and only four hundred in Arras. The "Petit Parisien" states that the B-itish army's remorseless harrying lias effaced the word "rest" from the Germar soldier's vocabulary. Airmen are spreading on every side a network of incessant raids, while the artillery block supplies for the trenches, especially the all important victuals.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 22 June 1917, Page 5
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