HALF-HEARTED NOW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 1

HALF-HEARTED NOW.

THE GERMAN ATTACKS. "Times" ead Sydney "Sun" Services. ! '.' ■ i (Received October 22, 9 a.m.) j LONDON, October 2L j The "Times" military correspondent j says : " Sir John -French's despatches should inspire confidence in the to- j suit of the war. We cannot discover j German shot accomplishing anything i in the last two months except the j destruction of a few forts by heavy guns. The Germans hare not sustained their reputation, and the Al- ' lies have now no difficulty in repulsing them. The hopelessness of the struggle is beginning to dawn on the German soldiers in the field. While

they are still making half-hearted at-

I lacks, the old spirit scorns to haw J been knocked out of them. The liss I ! of their officers and tho appearand j of second-rate troops is fa-twrnhcj ;i j dfislntesrating effect." I "TO DESTRUCTION." I | KAISER'S CHANNEL FORCE. ! " Timas " a.ad' Sydisay " San." Service*. (Received October 23. 0 ».ju.) LONDON, October 21. A correspondent, ■writing to the " Daily Mail " from France, says :—- "The Kaiser's Channd expeditionary force has received tlio last man and tin? lost riflo it can hope for. It mtK& go forward now to destruction. Not since the Lillo and Arias fights Law we gone to bed v/ith greater hope and confidence for the morrow." TRIBUTES TG BRITISH. (Received October 22, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. j French newspapers pay a tribute to the work of British engineers in. repairing an. important railway bridge, which the enemy destroyed during, his retreat. Trains were able to cross within threa weeks. A marble slab has been, placed on the bridge inscribed "English Engineers, 1914." Sir Douglas Haig, commander of a division m the British force, in a letter to a friend in England says: "We havo . had. the hardest time, but nothing in. our history surpassed the soldierly quality of our troops."