THE GERMANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2465, 6 October 1914, Page 3

THE GERMANS.

IN A DEMORALISED STATE. Paris, October 5. Where the Germans retired along the Rheims line, they abandoned many motor lorries, apparently owing to shortage of petrol. The framework of twelve was found buried, the lorries, having been apparently destroyed during the hurried retreat. Ihe German demoralisation has now become obvious.

Prisoners state that their trenches were too deep. The removal of the dead was impracticable, and as a result the trenches became horribly iv- . sanitary. The Paris Gaulois states that the Crown Prince, before evacuating the district, ordered Clermont and Nargonne to be burned. Even old men's alms-houses, maintained by the Little Sisters of the Poor, were burned, though the Mother Superior, on her knoes, implored tho troops to spare them. Amsterdam, October 5. The Berlin Tageblatt states that it will require extraordinary exertions to recapture the markets which were open to Germany before the war. Exports to British colonies aggregated 600 million sterling. r _W e may expect these countries not to buy from Germany what can be bought elsewhere." An official statement claims the complete defeat of the Russians at the battle of Suwalko. Three thousand prisoners, 18 guns, many machine guns, and transport material were captured.