CAPTNURED ORDERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3023, 18 August 1916, Page 3

CAPTNURED ORDERS.

GERMAN ANXIETY MANIFEST

London, Aug. 2

The British may well be proud of

tho month's work, writes tlie Tima. correspondent at headquarters. It is comparable with the Gorman effort at Verdun, with a difference —we have broken the front at every point, beating the enemy in fighting power.

Captured German documents _ confirm the importance of the positions which have been won. They refer to tho importance of the ground lost, and insist on the necessity for stand-

ing firm, and making " the enemy carve his way over heaps of corpses." One general order urges the immediate construction of new defensive lines

in the rear. The correspondent warns the people of Great Britain to check- any tendency to sentimcntalism concerning the Germans, who are a brutal and uncivilised enemy, neither sportsmen, nor gentlemen, and damned daily by their own handiwork. The new army, he adds, i.s fighting magnificently. and is to be compared with the first Expeditionary force in valour, discipline, ami unqueneherablo spirit. The men are already -war-hardened veterans, stern and invincible. The German estimate of 20.000 British losses is a grotesque exaggeration .