A REMARKABLE CHANGE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 August 1918, Page 5

A REMARKABLE CHANGE.

IN DEMEANOUR OF HUN

PRISONERS

CONTEMPTUOUS SWAGGER RE-

PLACED BY DEPRESSION

(Received Aug. 2. 5.40 a.nO

LONDON, Aug. 1

The United Press' correspondent, in an optimistic review of the situation in the "\Y<-st, says: Both officers and men captured by the Australians around Merris in the north and Morlancourt to the eastward of Amiens were extremely depressed. After the first few weeks of the Germans' offensive the enemy's morale appeared higher than since 1914, and they strutted inside the prison camps as though already owners of the world, replying even to kindly treatment by condescending and contemptuous smiles. They sneered at the

American fighting men, but to-day, and I believe this is equally true of the Germans in the field, the prisoners nve more depressed than since the war broke out. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.