Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 27, 18 September 1914, Page 5

Germany

AWAITING THE NEWS.

PUBLIC OPINION IMPRESSED BY

THE NEWS.

ANYTHING BUT A PROMENADE.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, September 17

Borne reports that German public opinion has been deeply impressed by tho news of defeat. Crowds outside the newspaper offices in Berlin awaiting the ridings arc such that disorder is feared. The Berlin Bureau is issuing lidletins obviously concocted so as to prepare people for. the bad news. It declares; “We did not expect it to be a promenade for our troops." “FROZEN PRODUCE.” TRAIN PACKED WITH BODIES OF DEAD SOLDIERS.

(Received 8.0 a.m. ' London. September 17

A special train of great length entered Berlin filled with dead Getmans, the bodies being piled np from floors to ceiling like frozen produce. MV ny of the passengers on the platform fainted at the sight. ACUTE DISTRESS IN THE SOUTH OF GERMANY.

(Beeeived 9.2 b a.m.) Bordeaux, September 17. Swiss merchants from Munich re port the prevalence of acute distress in {be south of Germany. TROOPS BEING RE-TRANSFERRED TO FRANCE. (Beeeived 11.45 a.m.) Petrograd, September 17.

It is reported that the Germans are sending back the first line of troops in East Prussia to Franco, apparently for the reason that the first transfer was stampeding practically half the population in the north-east of Prussia before General Rennenkampf and causing a panic in Berlin.