GERMAN MORALE SHAKEN.
RATIONS GROW SCANTY.
GREAT FLOOD OF WOUNDED
NUMEROUS DESERTIONS. Australian and X.Z. Cable Association (Reed. 10. p.m I AMSTERDAM. June la. French refugees, who have escaped from Northern France, state tint the German troops even in the first line aro now on very short rations. The morale of the army has been affected hv tho fight of endless trains of wounded leaving the front. Deserters in groups of from 200 to 500 are crossing the Dutch frontier, bribing the sentinels, who n-: unable to rope with the numbers .-i desert [~ some cases whole regiments refuse to advance. They are iZlated and deprived ,f food until they consent to fight. Summary execute ii has been abandoned, tus men are too valuable. The American peril is the chief I theme of conversation among the < :rrman soldiers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16881, 20 June 1918, Page 5
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