GERMAN NERVOUSNESS

Nelson Evening Mail, 21 September 1916, Page 2

GERMAN NERVOUSNESS

EXHORTATIONS TO REMAIN CALM. ! AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17. The German press contains many j articles intended to reassure the nation, and imploring people to maintain internal unity, lest domestic dissensions discourage tlie men at the front. In spite of' the assurances of unshakable confidence contained in these articles, itis evident to any discerning eye that :<)nlv recognition of the discouragement j caused by the Allied offensive could have nrorfuced this machine-made wave of | exhortation. One newspaper says that Oermanv has her teeth so deep into Verdun th.-it she cannot get them out. Toby's Kolnische Yolks Zeitung contains •:n article by its correspondent on the western front, dated Julv 13. describing the first days of the Allies' offensive as creaking vainlv against German resistance. The. writer gives no details, but proceeds : —- Notwithstanding that the battle was very severe—for the enemy attacked in \<>ry .great superiority and the individual Englisman is a brave and resolute man—•>iu- relatively weak infantry has performed superhuman deeds and inflicted losses on the enemy which he -will remember. As is, natural in a brave «rmy, British losses in officers arc also very ureat. but some educated ones who are -.lisle to form an- idea of the war said "that cannot hinder us from making ever renewed attempts to vanquish the German." for the hopes ni their whole country are 'bound up with this thought. Serious as everv German became in spirit when we learnt that the armed millions of the Entente were rushing on ns in stoi-m-attaek on all fronts, that the Russians sought to overwhelm the we;ik places on our east front with their masses, that the Austrian? had retired in Italy, and that the Anglo-French flood swelled up ajgainst us in- flic west .the course of events lias hitherto shown that in this greatest, most mighty moment of the great war our enemies' plans have been brought to naught by the steadfastness, joyful self-sacrifice. and conscious strength of our nation in arms. T'hov fell on ns simultaneously in order that we should not' throw our troops like shuttles on threatened points—now east, now west. Things have jjone all right, without that. Imperishable is the heroism of these great days. It is noticeable that the German press eives very few details of ths fighting- on the western front, and publishes as little as possiblo of the Allies' communiques.