THE GERMAN FEELING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 5

THE GERMAN FEELING.

(United Press Agency's Correspondent.) LONDON, May 7. For six days Huideixburg-'s armies m Flanders have be^n "licking their heels," and they have been held' in check' foi\3s days t b'e|ore Amiens ; and south of ' what may iSe their; next move. , The ''prisoners a.re' biegiii^ing ' to biatray signs of • \vhat might 'be called /"creeping apathy," 1 and captured letters' add to the impression that ■ the Germajns are less cocksure,, and, indeed> are. sxiffeving from a fit: of the blues. The . Gei*man t tanks are described' as ' 'pomparatjve failures," while -Hindeuburg is quoted as "sourly distrusting ; thenv" The troops declare .that tljey were led. to believe that the, British' wpiild :> h^ driven t0,., the sea without •' tr«ul?lo j y^t, ■ the. ■ Germa^is have • been.- stopped. e\rei;ywhe.re.' They have been misled,, instead of peace , there is only a : ,niore.. tragic \v^rfa,re. - Put, despite fact tlj^t-;fcho ?9.en are "down' m tb^e ,--n;d\ith" . fc^ex :&#\- continue to do '. Hiudenhurg's t bidc^ng.^ Further extremely., ne^vy Hghljing ; is momen.ta\'ily possib^, ;.a,nd -, upon the faces of the' .V^ommies^' 11 the French, and the Am^eijUC^ps is a curiou^ expression of cheeiymiss,' grimness, and Jtntici,jpation. If tlio Germans ediild onhf. see them theji; would cohtract the worse dose of pessimism they have had since their failure at the gates of Paris. The Entente's- troops are optimistic to the last drop of their blood.