WAR-WEARY ARMY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14126, 19 October 1916, Page 5

WAR-WEARY ARMY.

NEW YORK, August 16. American correspondents have been allowed to visit the German front on the Somme, and many columns of descriptive stories of the German defences appear in to-day's newspaper? ■ : ., 'Despite the correspondents' quotations of- anonymous (iefman generalH 5 statements that the Teutonic line is unbreakable,..Mr xon. Wiegand, the World's oqrlespondenty declares: — ■ " :j "The longing- for peace, is ( the keynote of the words and bearing of every one. I talked with, from tho lowest artillprist working his batteries and theinfaiitrymerii ifi the trenches, to the high,est officers and generals." •• Mr von Wcigaud describes the. longing peace as < "healthyiK It is qonsiderfKd' most sigttifioant that he-ysliould have; Mentioned tb^ discovery- of4peaoe ■ sentiment, healtlo or otherwise,- in the Ger-, man trenched after his recent Berlin despatches describing the-tfaieasiness and { pence longings M'ithia Germaiiy. The World,, from . Uii'ettAcolumns- of Mr. von Weigand^-:;djßscriptiojti ' 'of.^the Somme fighting,-- iwaleptsr the peace etemerit quoted .abovj^f- for , its pHiwiual' heading to the despatches. This heading is as follows in black type'Scrbss two columns, "Yearning for Peace grows among troops engaged in Avdrfd^ greatr* eat .batUe.-".- „ . ..,.,;