IN DESPERATE PLIGHT.
NO TALK OF VICTORY.
AWFUL DECIMATION.
("Times" Cable.) (Press Assn.— 9.10 p.m.)
LONDON, December 17.
A headquarters' correspondent says it is significant that among the prisoners on the Somme taken .since August there is no talk of a German victory. " - • Captured orders of the day show a steadily growing note of despondency. They refer to officers and men malingering and contain frenzied exhortation to the troops to hold their ground, under threats and humiliating regulations against an increasing tendency towards desertion. On the Somme alone the Germans have lost approximately two-thirds of their strength ond one-half of all units of the army.
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Northern Advocate, 18 December 1916, Page 2
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