IN DESPERATE PLIGHT
GERMAN TROOPS IN THE EAST MAY- MEET THE FATE OF V NAPOLEON'S ARMY. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPtMSHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE, ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 5, 9 a.m.) . COPENHAGEN, 3rd December. \ The German People's Commissary, Herr Barth, deplored the situation of the -Army in. the East, which he 'feared may suffer the fate cf Napoleon's army in | 1812. . l = N [A cahle message published last week stated: The situation oh the German .Eastern front is desperate. More than half a, million German soldiers are marching through ice, snow, and mud to reach any railway -station, while thousands of j feussians from Germany aire monopolis- ' ing railway trairis and rolling-stock. The Russians are without food, have insufficient clothes, and are plundering the food : stores as they go along. There is great panic all along the routes.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 7
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135IN DESPERATE PLIGHT Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 7
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