GLOOM IN GERMANY

Temuka Leader, Issue 7662, 31 December 1914, Page 1

GLOOM IN GERMANY

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According to the 'Amsterdam correspondent of the "Now York Herald,” writing under date October '22, German gloom ituaieasr.s, The boisterous gaiety of tlio earliest stages of the war is being rapidly replaced by subdued sobriety intermingled with the lowest, depths of depression. Had news lias (ravelled quickly, and now something of the truth of the position is i^-cu;inning to dawn upon tin- Mmperor’s ‘■ailnerts. The retreat of the German armies in Frame is known everywhere, and distorted nows officially circulal. ' cannot, conceal facts. Too many people have received notification from military authorities of the death of a son or husband. "So many hundreds of thousand have learn e;l that one of their family has been wounded in action.” The losses of tin; iTnnuns have been appalling, the correspondent sacs. W hile the Allies have live or six wounded f,,r every soldier killed, lb- proportion of German killed is nearly michait of the total. After careful examination of all availably lists, and comparing and weighing information derived from specially wdliniovincd uUarictv ia t '.ermaiiy. tin* correspondent estimates liml -ioO.DdO Germans have been killed, ami that the killed and wounded together number Inn ween ollt>,(H)(l and 000,000,

These may appear startling ligures, the correspondent .says, hut the -daughter has been so relentless and tho sacrifice of German soldiers so utterly callous that, there is little reason to doubt l hat they are substantially accurate. In advancing and retiring, .1. am I old that, the Germans suffered 10-ses unprecedented la the annals of warfare.

No tiling, lhe uri.Uii; ,-;i) s, has caused so much uui-pi-is.; in t .iinnaux as the inactivity of dm great. German, licet. 1 lie,great vtimc of a navy to Geriiiany ( . lias oven a-s.-n ,d, ami us meuac.i io Great llrji.'iiu v.xloll, d, tireal. ma-ses of ine iin man prop's tally c.peclcd il uould at leas!. hold the I’.rili.-a Sa.vy in rimes, and many oi I.lcm cx

peered sensational mari; ma; vielori •'lany expert < reckoned with e,ml,duly that Great britain. would n- ver t&iul a. silbsl anlinl. i-i\p-di lionary force lo -trance so Jong a- Iho German Heel, was iti being. Tlnj national chagrin ai tiro failure of • the grand German duct to ilo lilllc more tlvau eonccal Ucoll in German lorlilied harbours is ahnosi pathetic. "' rhe Gormans,” says the correspondent, in closing his dispatch, “are beginning to feci that they have boon duped and misled by (heir rulers, and signs are beginning lu manifest themselves -that, they will yoic,. iiieir resentment vigorously. 11 is rumoured here ibaf unemployment in German-,- increases and distress grows. The murmur of the people, however, are not .’•el ait ii-nla (e and hard I v audible. I he'- resemble the llrsl low, ominous crow I of a savage dog.”