THE WESTERN FRONT

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 5

THE WESTERN FRONT

DISCIPLINE OF FEAR.

WHAT IT MAY MEAN MXR TIMS

GERMANS.

(Received Oct. 20, 11.10 p.m.) , LONDON, Oct. 20. General Jonre, interviewed!'by Colt lier's Weeldy, sakl:—"Peace to-day would be a crime against posterity. We are fighting a nation drunk with the idee, of imperial domination. We mnst win the right to continue democracy or 'surrender Ehirope to the imposition of t!he imperial idea. "The French army did not crack during the first unequal weeks, and ■will not itow. . "When the day comes that Che German army "must retreat, and the discipline of fear is put to the final test, the- result may be a rout. The discipline of Year robs the German soldier of initiative, and makes him entirely subject to the will of his officer; lience he must attack in close formation. "The burning of villages and the shooting of civilians were the outcome of a fixed policy."