MORALE OF GERMANS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17427, 23 September 1918, Page 6

MORALE OF GERMANS

INTERVIEW WITH GENIiRAL MOM ASH. TRIBUTE T(J AUSTRALIANS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, September 21. (Received Sept. 22, at t>.s p.m.) Mr Price Bell, the Chicago Daily News correspondent on the west front, interviewed- General Monash, who said : " The German morale is low, but we are doubtless a long way from the end of the heavy fighting. The Germans are beaten. If the weather is favourable it is conceivable that the Germans will be pushed out of France by Christmas. 1 cannot say the same for Belgium. The Ilindenburg line will be taken in due course." While the correspondent was with General Monash he was passed by some Australian soldiers working in the field. They did not salute, and General Monash said : "They did not salute me, but they are carrying on. We make too much of these symbols and signs of discipline. There is one supreme final test of discipline, and it is that every man at the appointed time and place shall be on hand, resolute to do his job. By this test the Australian army has passed 100 per cent, clean." Mr Price Bell continues : " You can travel for two hours in a fast automobile due east of Amiens without reaching the end of the ground from which traliaiys have driven the Germans since April." He describes General Monash, as pre-eminently positive, with unwavering confidence in his soldiers, his own ideas ajid himself. His military aspiration is a pertinacious offensive. General Monash said the Australians' successes were due largely to their junior officers, many of whom had risen from the ranks. He particularly praised the speed of the engineers in bridge-building. ' Mr Bell concludes: " General Monaeh is daring, and his genius is written all across the landscape of France from Amiens to the Hindenburg line." Mr Bell is one of the most brilliant American correspondents in Europe. For coid in the head— inhalo NAZOL For sore" throat or tickling cough ,tako some drops on sugar. "Used either way NAZOL works 'wonders. 60 doses Is 6d.