A GERMAN COMPREHENSIVE GROWL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11633, 7 September 1918, Page 5

A GERMAN COMPREHENSIVE GROWL.

LYING WAR PARTY PUBLIC FULL OF DISTRUST. Reuter. Amsterdam, Sept. 5 The Cologne Gazette frankly admits that the German home front is weakened by the reserves in France, and blames the Wolff Bureau for letting the people believe the enemy would ever recover from the blows in March'and April. The people were thus buoyed by false hopes. Moreover, it complains they were similarly misinformed in regard to the effects of submarinism, and peace with Russia and Roumania. It quotes a semi official German telegram on April 16th announcing enormous captures rf clothes in Russia, Italy and North France, and representing booty in rubber and copper as sufficient for the German army for a year, “Can it be wondered that there should be disappointment and mistrust when we are asked to part with onr clothes and door handles to cover urgent needs! Patience gets worn out by such camouflaging of facts.” After admitting that Allied air attacks do produce the effects which the enemy intend, the writer proceeds to admit that 4 ‘despite submarinism we are not within measurable distance of so cutting off the enemy’s supplies as to render their means of "subsistence as scarce as our’s.