ENEMY'S MORALE GOING.
TELL-TALE ORDERS CAP-
TURED.
Received 9.30 p.m., Oct. 2.
LONDON, Oct. 2
Mr Gibbs writes: English and Canadian.-^ captured enemy orders completely bearing out what was recently said about the deterioration ocf German morale and the partial cracking of their discipline. One of these, issued before Friday's battle, states that the Hindenburg Line must be their winter position. Not a foot must be lost.
Another order soy^j: 'The morale and discipline of our men are plainly decreasing, owing, firstly, to the system of elastic defence, leading the men to believe that ground is of no value; secondly, lack of control and example among officers, also the lack of personality among the men, as shown by the unnecessary retirements and the conduct of men on leave, and the riots, such as those at Cambrai, in which officers joined.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17394, 3 October 1918, Page 5
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