EVERYTHING AT STAKE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 13, 15 August 1916, Page 8

EVERYTHING AT STAKE.

LETTER FROM GERMAN MtONT An Amsterdam message says:— i "Everything is at stake,' is the recurring phrase in an inspired letter from the German front. This letter is given, prominence in the semi-official 'Norddeutscher Allgemeine.' It goes on: "The battle surpasses imagination. The Russians, rejuvenated and' reequipped, overran our eastern wall, thus relieving the Italians. France, reborn, is pouring with the British; a: hurricane, of iron at th e SomtKe."' The writer refers to the "cold-blootled shopkeepers of the Thames, who are attacking the health and j'fe of the German women and children." The army. goes on the letter, is doing its duty magnificently, and tlu wr.terwonde s "if ihe pe.pie at hon-e r al sc the grav ty of the hour when the flower of the nati n is f "ting ihv- Brit sli, Russians and African hold 's."