GLOOMY HERTLING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16240, 19 September 1918, Page 4

GLOOMY HERTLING.

“ALLIES HATE US.” LONDON, Sept. 2. Reuter’s correspondent at Amsterdam says that Count von Hertling (German Chancellor), addresing a deputation of students, gloomily depicted Germany’s difficulties as to supplies of food and clothing, and referred to other manifold deprivations. The Chancellor spoke of the anxious outlook for the future, and complained that the Allies were animated mainly by a hatred for Germany bordering on insanity. while Germany was endangering herself by the intensification of her internal antagonisms. An authoritative German military statement warns the public against the “ridiculous rumours spreading through Germany, such as reports of wholesale mutinies in the army, betrayal of submarines, and the suicide of Hindenburg.” Th© whole statement is a striking revelation of the state of the Gorman mind. The German public is most depressed at tho news from the West front, hut comments indicate that tho bitter disappointment of the people is confined to tho failure of the army to grab Paris and the Channel ports. The Times’ Amsterdam correspondent points out that Germany is still convinced that she has secured a permanent grip on Russia. Tho Frankfurter Zoituug admits tho painful failure of Ludendorff’s plans.— Reuter,