EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN NOTEBOOK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 8

EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN NOTEBOOK.

gr^THIS COUNTRY WILL BE OUR |V.;, * GRAVE."

I. (Received Oct. 19, 10.30 a.m.) f LONDON, Oct. 18. . , An extracts from a pocket-book found £«n a dead German soldier early in' |October says that at Ddinmery the ?o|rench forces opened a hellish fire, |)which created panic. "Everybody gave but nobody thought to tell us f^bf lie down, and there was a shocking |aness. We were shot at by friend and |f qe. The burning of Rethel was dread*ss■ , vandalism and a disgrace to the army. The damage was a miljll%i^?narks' Our losses at Lauteurre g^j^jja^ enormous; the 178 th Regiment £*Btfoe«3ort 1700 wounded besides the pMjl^f; We are practically without offiI^WBj^and everybody thinks the situacritical. We advanced too quickly. The French beat us in using cover. This country will be our grave." AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18. Eight thousand Austrians who participated in the siege of Antwerp ar© ref. turning to Cracow. v