GERMAN MILITARY PLANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 9

GERMAN MILITARY PLANS

The "Handelsblad" Berlin correspondent, writing under date December 8, says the capture of Lodz was not celebrated in Berlin\with the flying of flags and the ringing of bells. The newspapers did not call for such a celebration as .they did for Antwerp and AVloclawek, yet, according to the military correspondents of the same papers, the latest victory is equally as important as the others, when Germans were roused to an extreme exhibition of rejoicing. It is widely asserted' in Berlin that the German military authorities are determined to conduct a powerful offensive in the East with the object of freeing their hands. As soon as the operations in Poland are favourably finished they will concentrate the whole of their strength in the West. Tin's is a reversal of the original project, which' had necessarily to be renounced in consequence of the resistance of the Belgians and tlie powerful help of the English. The correspondent gives reasons for asserting that German resources in fresh troops arc fur from exhausted. 'Hie Ml levy is still on the drill rrround, and the 1915 levy lins not yetbeen summoned to arms. Indeed, it is only necessary to walk round the great Tterliu barracks to be convinced how full they are.