UTTER DISCOURAGEMENT FELT IN GERMANY.
FORTY THOUSAND PRISONERS LOST IN RETREAT. (Received 2.10 p-m.) LONDON, August 5. The "Berliner Tageblatt" states that the Marne defeat has produced unparalleled outbreaks of utter discouragement and downheartedness, and wild reports, including statements that the Kaiser and Hindenburg have been murdered, and Hindenburg killed in a duel with Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. The police placarded the streets with threats of severe penalties to the spreaders of rumours.—("Timeß.") Since the Crown Prince began his retreat his armies have fallen back twenty miles and lost forty thousand prisoners.—'(Reuter.) The Paris newspaper "Matin" publishes a secret order by Ludendorff referring to certain new tactics. It says: The situation in regard to reserves compels us to perfect them. It is absolutely indispensable to avoid the old fault of attacking in mass formations. By all means we must reduce our losses. (Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 186, 6 August 1918, Page 5
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