DIPLOMATIC OPINION
THE KAISER'S .EXPECTATIONS FOILED.
GERMANY COMPELLED TO ABANDON BELGIUM
Last Night, 11.50 o'clock. V LONDON, Sept. 1
A distinguished neutral diplomat doclares tfiat there is a multitude of evidence that the Germans will he forced to abandon the campaign in Belgium and to withdraw her troops from that zone. In the Allies darkest hour Great things had happened which had distinctly changed the outlook. The Kaiser's expectation that he would he ahle to announce the capitulation or annihilation of the British Army on Tuesday {the anniversary of the battle of Sedan, in 1870) had been foiled. The events of the next few davs were fraught with the utmost importance regarding the safety of the Capitals of three of the Powers engaged, notably, Berlin, Pans, and Vienna.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 September 1914, Page 5
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