JOY IN BELGIUM.
LONDON, October }. The Daily Telegraph’s Rotterdam correspondent savs that there is a thrill of joy in Belgium, the unhappy inhabitants of which country have never been so hopeful and optimistic. The British bombardment on the coast has caused uneasiness and anxiety among the Germans behind the lines. Even the frontier guard cannot hide Its depression, realising that the official statements are lies. When the trainlcads of wounded German marines were returning, reports from the German headquarters of immense captures of the AngloFrench troops failed to stop the “rot” which set in. Something approaching demoralisation prevails. The German troops are in a state of extreme nervous tension throughout Belgium, indicating that the Germans realise the imminence of the crisis. Every man that can be spared, including the garrisons, has hastily been sent to the firing line. “GUN-PLANES.” PARIS, October 3. Our aeroplanes bombarding the German lines, and called gunplanes, are really biplanes with a small Hotchkiss gun upofi the upper plane. The first experiments took place in January, when Captains Reny and Faure were killed at Paris. Tho gunplanes have since been improved, and are able to bombard towns from tho air. > Many are being used.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 29
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198JOY IN BELGIUM. Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 29
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