Berlin Disillusionment.

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1914, Page 4

Berlin Disillusionment.

GREAT CHANGE IN PUBLIC FEELING

COPENHAGEN, Sept. 15.

Letters from Berlin show startling changes in the position of affairs. Disillusionment began with the Lemberg reverse, and then followed the hurrying of an army corps to stiffen the waver* ing line of the Austrian defence. Next was the Genenral staff's confession that General yon Kluck's wing had been turned.

The Berlin newspapers attempted' to discount the reverse by stories of the enormous total of prisoners in German hands,- but the train loads of wounded and long processions of ambulances to the hospitals told their own story which was further emphasised by the return of unopened letters sent to relatives at the front. In red ink across the face of the envelopes appears the pregnant word "Gef alien."