THE GERMAN FAILURE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14143, 21 July 1916, Page 5

THE GERMAN FAILURE.

NOT A SINGLE AIM CAN BE

ACHIEVED

STRATEGY SEVERELY CRITICISED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Amsterdam, July 19.

A Cologne correspondent says that on all sides it is becoming apparent that not a single German aim will be achieved.

The military operations on the West front are severely criticised, particular-

•Iy the death march towards Verdun, j The Crown Prince is openly accused of uselessly accumulating troops and .impeding a victorious offensive on another front. i Officers taken prisoner on the West , front admit that the Germans above ! all fear the English and French offensive at fresh points-on the front for which there are insufficient reserves. They say that every man in Kitchener's armies seems to be a sharpshooter with courage equal to that of the best | trained soldiers. j Trones Wood is a vast German | graveyard. More men have been sac- ! rificed there than at any point of the ' retreat. "'