GERMAN'PESSIMISM.
VICTORIES NEUTRALISED. HEAVY LOSSES DEPLORED. (Received October 24, 1.80 a.m.) London, October 23. A letter from a German officer who is participating in the fighting in the region of Roye and Noyon, says that any successes the Germans score are neutralised by the terrible losses. Their men fight bravely, the writer says, but the allies are becoming more and more audacious and warlike. The Turcos and Zouaves he describes as hardy fighters and deadly marksmen. The German Eighteenth Army Corps was especially badly cut up.
The writer adds that the Germans had a victory at Remincourt, but the victory, he deplored, was a veritable slaughter. Some of the victims were youthful members of the house of Sehleswig-Holstein, of whom few remained.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 8
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