GERMANY BOLSTERS NERVES OF PEOPLE.
GLOOMY REPOROIS , HAVE EFFECT
ON POPULATION:. AMSTERDAM, May 11. What Germany's morale is just ticw is unfittingly revealed by Captain Birch von Salztnann, writing iathe Vossische Zeitung, under tlie headline j 'INurses.' Tales." , , '
• "It is remarkable, how susceptible people are to hallucinations m this 1 war,' 1 he says.* "In Berlin such talk as this is widespread: '"In the Reichstag -people say_ our losses are formidable. In the 'ReichfttagXpeople J say i that- the- . Western offensive is getting out of control, the enemy is much stronger, than the highej, command believed; we have" ho horses continue the fight; the whole country round Ypres is a lake that ennnot be passed. , Jiy .,,the , Reichstag people , say that th©; territory, between our Amiensi front v and Par/sis nilned and will' blow up one morning. This is what people say an the Reichstagy and Everybody jbe-. licves it outside. v Peoplbaro begimnng to lose their nerves. One certainly wonders why Goncral von Stein referred to our losses tho other day m the House, but the next day one Deputy, spooking to his constituents,! translated srthe; War .Minister's words as follows: 'The War Minister said our losses are so heavy that we shall be forced to give up*the" offensive.' It is strange that these,' rumors always spread -m the Reichstag, when operations pause. Do Reichstag, members forget wha^thcy owe to. the. Fatherland? How, v <lai,'P one be pessimist ♦.ic? Berlin's talk is an open affront to; our brethren at the front. Let us not' allow ourselves to bb frightened at nursery tales. Let us at last learn to have faith m ourselvesy Onpe -we do"Hhat we shall believe in ' our victory. Our soldiers believe m it f . othei'wiso . they 'could not dQ Avbat they do. r They believe m Germtany. Let us believe m it, ,^oo. Onlyvwith ,that faith, via? aur Lhißartft. c&q we win this wai*." .
GERMANY BOLSTERS NERVES OF PEOPLE.
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 5
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