GERMAN PUBLIC SEVERELY SHAKEN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 26 July 1918, Page 5

GERMAN PUBLIC SEVERELY SHAKEN

Amsterdam, July 21. ino faihiro on tho Jfarno lias seriously shaken tli6 morale of the population. Iho newspapers give prominence to articles intended to havo a trnnquillising eliect, and deny rumours of attempts on tho lives of the Kaiser and voi; Ilinden-biirg.--Aua.-N.is. Cable Assn. "ONE OF THE MOST FRIGHTFUL WARNINGS IN HISTORY" (Rec. July 25, 10.40 p.m.) \r /•< t. • •, ~ . London. July 21. l * George Perns writes: T-f tho sensational phase of Foch's counter-stroke 'I s I™ 111 8"? not vet fully visible. The enemy is still holding' out dog°i • i « ' < ll3n « v « nll| 8 e '""I IS malting ail effort to reach positions wmcli oiler a permnm-ntly defensible front. All the enemy's chief centres sotilh1, of L , - ;ilsl!0 ill '° nov ' llmlei ' 1,10 AlliM ' artillery fire. It Ims been one of '?°i ~ warnings in military history of the peril of on insufficiently guarded llank."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RATS MAY GO BACK TO THEIR HOLES (Rec. July 23, 7.20 p.m.) >~, , IT . ~ , . London, Julv 24. •Uie Daily Mail's" Berne correspondent, writing on July 24. s-iys:* "The generol opinion in military circles in Gorniaiiy is that if tho present offensive fails tlic bennans will revert to defensive tactics on an unprecedented scale. Experts are discussing the construction of a system of conereto moats, underground railways, and camps.—United Service. "TIDE FINALLY TURNED" CONFIDENT SPEECH BY GENERAL SMUTS. (Rec. July 25, 7.20 p.m.) Goneral Smut?, reviewing the military situation in a spoccl" i™Londou, said fir n lW° l i a i " St s :d tllis ti,no the ti(le '""I turned i. {, ftn( ' inclusively "The gaps in the Allied armies, duo ll„ff (•„,, 1, c,p f T !St l I? ' ,issi , n >~ have been filled with much stem stuff limntho United States, and it will not be so long before tho-American Army ill France will be as large as the Anglo-French forces combined. Germany at tho height of her power, before the Americans came in, could not strike a paralysing blow. What will 1m her position when America's new and incomparable army is fully on tho scene? lie the end far or near, wo can bo as confident or it as or to-morrow s rising sun. —Jlcuter. WITH THE NEW ZEALANDERS Mr Philip Gibbs writes: "There has been 110 important tofantry actionbetween Amiensand Ypres since we captured Meteren, but on several parts of the lino we have been keeping tho Germans tame, and driving them off bits of ground uselul lo us. English and New Zealand troops have improved (he positions a irood <leal between Hobuterne and Gommecourt by nibbling forward. In, the enemy such a hard lifo that he has had to draw back miserably. tll,s ivay ca I ,ture<l Rossignol Wood, from where, they say, the tieniians 'had to do a bunk' on Sunday. The onomy shelling in this area lias been ficrco during tho last few days, the ground for several miles being pitied with shell-craters, in which the New Zealanders sat without a. sign of uneasiness cleaning their irifles, writing letters, and plaving cards. They paid no more attention to the ugly noises of tlio whizzing shells than if Ihey' had been tho buzzing of gnats. Tho New Manders nuulo the most noise a little later, when they bombarded tho enemy. 'That's the way to keep them unhappy,' Fjiiu fin nrtiHen ofhccr. Iho New /en hinders liuvo boon on tho offensive in n small way ever since (hey arrived in the neighbourhood, on March 2fi. The German divisions in the line are suffering heavily elsewhere as well as here. If Prince Rupprccht decides to lie rpust call' on his reserves, for these homing divisions are worn out fej,! war weary."—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE WAR IN THE AIR London, July 24. A Fireneh official report states: "The aviators wero active on the 22nd. French and British pilots brought down or disabled thirty-seven enemy machines. There wero numorous fights in the air. In tho bombing operations 3lSj tons were dropped in the daytime on enemy aerodromes and stations. A ton and a quarter of explosives were dropped in a night raid on the elation of Maison-Bloue, causing a conflagration and explosion.'''—Aus.-N. Cable Assn.-Rcnter.