GERMANY'S HERCULEAN TASK.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13598, 7 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY'S HERCULEAN TASK.

THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS AT

MARSEILLES

(Received Oct. 6, 5.45 p.m.)

London, Oct. 3

"The Times," in a leader referring to the big task the Germans..haveundertaken in making a oraHitahif; fland across the north of France, trying to take Antwerp, and simultaneously invading Russia, says their odv j »c-e to the Niemen has dctn notrated :tboi* courage, if not their oomraons'^Lse, oi<i now they are advancing huge masres along a front of a hundred miles against the Russians on the Vistula. Only n nation with five million trailed myn could attempt so many great feats at once. They are putting up or line performance, and if they only knew how to behave decently in warfare they would be worthy foes.

Among the thousands of Gorman prisoners arriving at Marseilles is al most an entire regiment of the I'russian Guard, with a band and staff offiwrs.