SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 3 December 1914, Page 5

SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

GERMANY'S INTENTIONS

TO BRUTALLY CRUSH ALL RESISTANCE. GERMAN DISCIPLINE. TRIED BEYOND HUMAN ENDURANCE. LONDON, Dec. 2. The Yellow Book shows that the treaty of 1911, recognising France's position in Morocco, created, the deepest disappointment in Germany, which imagined that France was a moribund nation, whose African, heritage she must annex. She was determined to have it out with France in April. M. Etienne (Minister of War) sent a. German official secret report, which, stated, that neither the ridiculous clamours for revenge of the French nor the gestures of the Slavs will deter us from extending Germanism throughout the entire world.

I M. Paul Cambon (French Ambassador m London), wrote on May 19, 1913, that at the end of the Balkan - Conference, Yon Moltke declared; "When^ war becomes necessary, it must, ws waged by ranging all the chances on our side. Success alone justifies iti ©ermany mubt nc^ giye Russia time to mobilise,. *>re obliged to maintain in the east, foivT es Whkh will leave her inferior in the xvegi, She, therefore, must forestall our principal adversary immediately. There ai-e nine chances out of ten that we are £oing to have a war, and must begin without waiting for the order so as to brutally crush all resistance." An eye witness, describing tits repulse of the Prussian Guards, say* ilie | German discipline was 1 wonderful, bvrt | was occasionally forced beyond femr.n endurance. The Germans were ordered to attack our trenches across an open space of 200 yards. After the cries of "Vorwarts," the first assault was delivered and repelled. The ••second and third attempts were preluded by1 louder exhortations, but they also failed. Again the shouts of "Vorwarts" were heard, but were greeted by the exclamations of "Nein," and No," yet the advance was made.