HOPE AND CONFIDENCE INSPIRE THE ALLIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15747, 23 October 1914, Page 5

HOPE AND CONFIDENCE INSPIRE THE ALLIES.

FAILURE OP THE GERMAN CHANNEL RAID.

BRITISH GENERAL'S PRAISE OF HIS TROOPS. London, October 21. The military correspondent of the Times says that Genera! French's despatches should inspire confidence as to the result of the war. "We cannot discover the German shock accomplishing anything during the last two months except the destruction of a few forts by heavy guns,''" says the correspondent. " The Germans have not sustained their reputation, and the allies have now no difficulty in repulsing them. The hopelessness of the struggle is beginning to dawn on the German soldiers in the field. They are still making half-hearted attacks, but the old spirit seems knocked out cf them. The loss of officers and the appearance of second-rate troops in the ranks is exercising a disintegrating effect." The Daily Mail's correspondent in France says: "The Kaiser's Channel expeditionary force has received the last man and rifle it can hope for, and must go forward now to certain destruction. , Not since the Lille and Arras fights have we gone to bed with greater hope and confidence for the morrow."' General Sir D. Haigh, commanding a British Army Corps, in a letter to a friend in England, says: "We had the hardest of times, but nothing in our history surpassed the soldierly quality of the troops."