GERMANY'S IDEA.
GENERAL ..TOFFEE'S CRITICISM
LONDON, October 20. General Joffre, interviewed by Collier's Weekly, declared that peace today would be a- crime against posterity. "We are -fighting," he said, "n nation drunk with 1 the idea of Imperial domination. *We must win the right to continue a democracy or surrender Europe to the imposition of the Imperial idea. The French Army did not crack during the first unequal weeks, and will not now. When the day comes, the German Army must retreat, and their discipline of fear will be put to a final. test and the result may be a rout. The discipline of fear robs the German soldier of the initiative and makes him entirely subject to the will of his officer. Hence they must attack in close formation. The burning of villages and shooting of civilians is the outcome of this fixed policy."
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Grey River Argus, 22 October 1915, Page 7
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