THE NERVOUS GERMANS.
A DOCTOR'S VIEWS. (London Times and Sydney Sun Servlces.r .■'■■• LONDON, December 30. | A British doctor who has spent four months in Germany says the-, Germans are supposed to be "phlegmatic, but this ii incorrect. Under <t.heir calm manrftr they are, a highly-strung, nervous people, who react 'very easily to good or bad news. Many of their young soldiers lost their reason under fire and went raving mad^ Their first line of troops were hard fellows, able <to bear the: fatigue and discomforts of a rapid campaign, but their second line were of nuich lower physique, because they had 'begun to live comfortably and lackk '- the stomach for war. t This revealed the essential weakness o'f the German na t-'-._ a tendency to get out of condition « at a relatively early age.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13575, 31 December 1914, Page 3
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134THE NERVOUS GERMANS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13575, 31 December 1914, Page 3
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