Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 310, 31 December 1914, Page 5

Germany

THE TRUE PUBLIC FEELING. United Press Association. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Copenhagen, December 30. - - -Konrad Hanzamann, of Belgian lineage, but a member of the Reichstag, writing to the Berliner Tageblatt, says that everywhere the people were publicaly simulating optimism and privately expressing surprise at the failure, Everyone was seeking for a scapegoat, and many blame the diplomats for not securing more allies. There was a strong undercurrent outside the Reichstag against the Chancellor (Count von Bethmaun Hollweg). Scandinavian newspapers comment on the significance of the article being allowed to be published. GENERAL. London, December 30. A British doctor, who spent four months in Germany, says the Germans are supposed to be phlegmatic. This is incorrect. .-Under their calm manner they are highly-strung and pervous people, who react very easily to good or bad news. Many of the young soldiers lost their reason under fire, and went raving mad. The first line of troops is composed of hard fellows, able to bear the fatigues and discomforts of a rapid campaign. The second line is of much lower physique, because they had begun to live comfortably, and lacked the stomach for war, thus revealing the essential weakness of the Gorman nation—a tendency to get out of condition at a relatively early age.