SINKING SPIRITS.
IN GERMAN ARMY,
CRUCIAL PERIL,
(Received 9.50 p.m.)
LONDON, Aug. 29
Mr Percival Phillips writes: "Though the German High Command must'be anxious over the fall of Roye, the Australian advance on Peronne, and the peril of Bapaume, the position before Arras must claim attention before all, also because the Bulge in Hindenburg's line grows hourly deeper. The fate of Bapaume and Peronne matters little by comparison. Enemy prisoners are suffering badly from nerves. The infantry accuse their gunners of criminal inaccuracy and the officers blame the Higher Command for ordering impossible counter-attacks."
Mr Phillip Gibbs says: "The German infantry, for the time at any rate, have lost their spirit. A rot has set in. We ourselves are not in as good a state as in March last, but we have reserves and the Germans at present have no such reserves." —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 30 August 1918, Page 3
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