DEPRESSED GERMANS
I OFFICER'S LETTER HOME London,""October 23. '£ letter written, by a. German .office* participating in the fighting in the region of Royo anil Noyon says:—"We Had. to dig Tip the soil of tlao whole forest to bury our dead. The voice of conscience is choked and the finer 6entimonts of humanity, suppressed when wo come ffcros3 a houso, and nothing re:mains insido. AVo thought our trenches wore impregnable, but wo were forced to retreat. "The Moroccan troops are a terror to our men. No sooner have we taken shelter in a wood thaii a'hail of bullets comes from the branches, •where the Moroccans liavo climbed. "The Seventeenth Division has neither ammunition nor food. Otir leaders seem qui to incompetent. Many men aro dying of fatigue, and ill-fed horses drop appallingly."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2290, 26 October 1914, Page 5
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131DEPRESSED GERMANS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2290, 26 October 1914, Page 5
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