Germany.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 5

Germany.

THE GERMAN ARMY.

MOTORED BETWEEN WALLS OF MARCHING MEN.

Times and Sydney Sun Services London, September I*s

An American correspondent who was permitted to examine the German armies as they started for the invasion oi France, says that for five solid hours, travelling at express train speed, he was motored between walls of marching men. This ninth field army was composed of the very flower of the Empire, including the magnificent'lmperial Guard. The men were all young, keen as razors, and hard as nails. The horses were splendid. The artillery included five gigantic Howitzers, each drawn by 16 pairs of horses, and capable of tearing a city to pieces at a distance of 12 miles. Field kitchens rumbled down the lines, serving steaming soup and coffee to the men without breaking step. Wagons were filled with cobblers, mending the soldiers' boots,,and other apparently harmless wagons carried machine-guns ready for instant action. The medical corps was as efficient as a great city hospital. Men on bicycles strung field telephones from tree to tree, enabling the commander to converse "with any party of a fifty-miles long column. The whole army never sleeps. When one-half iss marching the other half is resting. The soldiers are treated as valuable machines, and kept at the highest possible efficiency, well fed. shod, and clothed, but worked as a negro teamster works his mules.

"CEFALLEN!"

THE &TARTL3NC CHANCE AND DISILLUSIONMENT.

BEGAN WITH LEMBERC REVERSG

(Received 10 a.m.)

Copenhagen, September 15

Letters from Berlin show that the startling change and disillusionize) >l began with the Lomberg reverse, then the hurrying of an army corps to stiffen the wavering'line of the Austrian Gofence, and next the General Staff':: cbnfessioH that General Kluck's had been turned.

Berlin newspapers attempted to discount the reverse by long stories oi the enormous total of prisoners in German hands, hut train loads of wounded and long processions of ambulances to the hospitals told another story, whih. many staying at home received hack unopened letters sent to relatives at the front and in red ink across the face of the envelope appears the pregnant u'ord---"Gefallen." A FRANTIC GOVERNMENT. GERMAN NEED OF MONEY.

ANOTHER TALF. OF DECEIT.

(Received 11.5 a.m.) London, September 15 (evening'). The German Government., realising that' little' help is probable from neutral countries, is making frantic appeals for an international loan, as cab led on September 9th, promising special rewards from the Allies' war indemnity.

MAKING GERMAN OPINION.

FORGED SPEECH CIRCULATED.

(Received 11.5 a.m.) London, September 15

A forged speech, said to have been delivered by John Burns, has been issued by the so-called "Berolina Agency," who profess to receive it from in Edinburgh correspondent. The writer of the letter is unknown, and gives as his address a very back slum.

ATTEMPTED EXPLANATION.

HOLLWEC DODGES THE POINT.

(Received 11.5 a.m.) Copenhagen, September 15. ' Herr Holweg, in a statement u q the Press, replying to Mr Asquith's speech, said: "England should have advised Belgium to accept our offer of integrity and indemnity. We know France's plan of attack on Rhineland through Belgium. Would England have interfered to protect Belgium against France?"

Hollweg does not, however, refer to Germany's refusal to guarantee Belgium's colonies.