GERMANS WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE LAST MAN.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13594, 8 October 1914, Page 2

GERMANS WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE LAST MAN.

The New York "Sun"' Berlin correspondent, telegraphing from Rotterdam on'August.-15th ,said: — The German military position, as described to mo just before I left the Foreign Office in Borlin on Thursday, is this:

"Rather than surrender Germany is prepared to light until ovory man capable of*bearing arms is slain." The War Oilico alone knows just how much the fighting to date along the lines of this policy lias cost Germany. It has cost many men, that much is known, but ,the losses have had the effect only of firing the- determinatijn of the Kaisor and his-advisers that the German cause shall prevail. As for the nation itself, it is calm. Reports of anti-war demonstrations are- absolutely untrue. The Germans are going to Paris. That is the one fact in the scheme of the campaign which is permitted to become known. The plan of campaign and 'tli© routes by which the armies are to travel are naturally kept secret. It is taken for granted that great losses must be expected in carrying out such tin" undertaking, but the staff officers with whom I talked insist that there can be only one outcome. Emperor "William lias aged greatly in the last fortnight. His customary smile has : disappeared and "the deep lines in his face are more accentuated. Members of bis household,, however, say that he is determined to sacrifice everything for the national cause. He is in almost constant consultation with his military advisers. The Kaiser's position is that Germany vvas forced into the war and that she must continue to .fight. He is deeply grieved over the losses to the German army, but he shows no disposition to recede from his position.