"LONDON IN JULY."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

"LONDON IN JULY."

LATEST TEUTON TIME-TABLE. Un'dfji the heading, " Twenty-five Days in Germany." the Petit Parisien publishes the impression of a Swiss who recently imade a stay on the other side of the Rhine. The writer says that complete confidence reigns in Prussia; there is still a firm belief in victory. No doubt is entertained. " We shall conclude peace with France on favourable terms; we shall occupy French porta until the conclusion of the struggle with Great Britain, for our real enemies are the English. That country, instead of exterminating us. shall become a German colony. We shall sign tha peace in London in July or August." "Such," continues the traveller, "are the ideas which, if one believes it or not, are now, as at the outbreak of the war, the basis of all conversations both in Prussia and in Silesia- But in the other Federated States it is quite another thing. In the Grand Duchy of Baden the gradual advance of the French troops through Alsace is causing alarm and making the population think. If von Hindenburg does not take Warsaw, or succeed in driving the Russians from Austro-Hungarian territory within a month, and if we do not hold Calais by Easter, we may make our wills, they say. ''The most severely Jricd and afflicted and most depressed kingdom is Bavaria. -.u .-Sl!. Lan . s complain, with reason, that Prussia a keeping for herself goods mUno-sd for the amy, and consequently *R V W ™? in Ra ™ ia «*» i" . t anj of the other States."