WINTER IN EUROPE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1333, 5 December 1914, Page 4

WINTER IN EUROPE.

Winter, which has set in early this year in Europe, will be more than an infliction of hardship on the soldier ; it will be a test of the army organisation of the combatant Powers. History abounds in examples of armies which held their own with a certain amount of stubbornness, though poorly organised, as long as summer endured, but when the rigours of winter fell on them, their weakness in the matter of supply made their case hopeless. The terrible experiences of the British Army in the Ciimea may be quoted. Out of 24,000 who died, only 4,000 owed their deaths to the clash of battle. The remaining 20,000 perished of exposure and dysentery. In the winter of January and February, 1871, the deeds of the well-equipped German army and of the desperate French Army provided a remarkable contrast. During the second week in January. the German general, Manteuffel, with two army corps, and 168 guns, made forced marches through the snow and ice of the mountains of Cote d’Or. They were well booted, well clad, and well fed, and they suffered no great hardships. At the same time, Bourbaki’s French army of 100,000 was in plain country, with no forced marches to make, and it was perishing. On February Ist, 84,000 French crossed the Swiss frontier and laid down their arms. “Their clothes were dropping in tatters. . , , feet and hands frost-bitten. Some had lost their toes ; the limbs of others were so frozen that every movement was agony. v The men stated that for three days they had neither food nor fodder served out to them.” (Colonel Hozier, “The Franco-German War.”)

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