THE GERMAN MANRESERVE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11115, 3 December 1914, Page 5

THE GERMAN MAN—RESERVE.

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Mr Maxwell, the Daily Telegraph correspondent, ■quotes an officer who has been acting as an intermediary between the Allied armies saying that it is dangerous to imagine that Germany has exhausted her reserves of fighters. It is true that tremendous and irreparable gaps have been made in the best material, but she is -always able to put new men into the field. Picked men and new levies are sent to tiie western area. The Germans believe that victory must be won bere, and not in the east. They are only just beginning to revise tbeir opinion concerning the fighting quality of the Russians, and incidentally of that of the Austrians who have so grieviousiy disappointed them. There is no evidence that an effective body has been withdrawn from the west to reinforce the Germans in the east. It is suspected that such reports are of German origin, and intended to decieve. They have already had a i aste of ■the quality of the new men being raised in Britain and aware that the danger is increasing monthly. Hence the frantic endeavours to make the Channel unsafe for the transport of troops; but there will be no interruption in the supply of young soldiers, who are proving themselves more than a match for the Kaiser’s finest and best trained. That is one reason why he is in a hurry and we are not.