UNHAPPY GERMANY.
FOOD SUPPLIES FAILING.
STARVING SOLDIERS DESERT
PRISONERS' REVELATIONS.
QUELLING ANTI-WAR RIOTS
(Rewired August 15, 5.55 p.m.) Paris, August 14. Allegations arc being made in Boulogne that German officers and men are deserting on account of starvation.
In some cases it has been found necessary to order troops back to the towns to quell rioting caused by the socialistic agitation against the war.
An official of the War Office, who interrogated sonic German prisoners, found that the men had been ill-fed, the morale- was mediocre, and none of them appeared to knowwhy they had been mobilised. One man replied: " It, is not the people's war; it is the officers' war."
A message from Brussels states that during the lighting at Haelen and Dicst a large number of prisoners were taken by the Belgians. Many of them were in a fainting condition owing to lack of food, and their horses were dying of hunger.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15689, 17 August 1914, Page 6
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