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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 7

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] YON LUDENDORFFS CHALLENGE | OPINION OF THE ENEMY'S PEOPLE * ■ jj ffBI TBtEOKAIH.—rNITBD fBESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) j (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ROTTERDAM, 15th February. ■The Vossische Zeitung's military critic, boasting of the German strength on the West front, says: "The German military advance was stopped on the Marne by Russia's intervention, not by France The fearful events of the past j three and a-half years will only prove a tremendous intermezzo between these early events and the still greater events before' us. The present situation raises tremendous confidence in German hearts. This confidence concentrates upon the Hindenburg line. Yon Ludendorff asks;: 'Who will dare to measure his 1 strength with this army,?'" (Received February 16, 10 «.m,)' NEW YORK, 15th February. I Mr. Simms, the United Press correspondent, writing from Zurich, states j> that he learns on reliable authority that the Kaiser has declared President j Wilson's terms to be sufficiently reasonable to form the basis of peace, but •j that the pan-Germans silenced the Kaiser. The German masses no longer expect. j victory, and believe that another offensive will only result in further German \ casualties.