The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1915. GERMANY’S BIG BLUNDER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 82, 10 April 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1915. GERMANY’S BIG BLUNDER.

After a stay of twenty-live days in Germany a Swiss traveller who succeeded in reaching Paris, gave to the French Press some interesting impressions regarding what lie had seen and heard in the enemy country. Ho found that up to the end of January, complete confidence reigned in Prussia, and there was still belief that victory would eventually come. They confidently predicted that the Russians would be finished off in February, that Warsaw would then be captured, and that Calais, which was essentially necessary for them, would he taken before Faster, as the Gormans must prevent the landing of Indian troops and French colonial troops. The Prussians were quite prepared'to sacrifice a million men in their effort, and were determined to conclude peace with France on favourable terms, f hey would then, they boastfully asserted, occupy French ports until the conclusion of the struggle with Great Britain, for their real bitterness and hatred' was against the English whoso aid to France and Russia at the right moment had put outside the realms of possibility that impudent Prussian dream of world dominance--a dream which the world now fully realises would have meant, in its realisation, world disaster. But in January, fed up with tall talk from the war leaders, and kept in ignorance of the real state of affairs, these ‘‘kindly German people were already arranging what they would do when the British isles became a German Colony. I hey even went so far as to fix the signing of peace in London in July or at latest August. The date, may be all right, but the place where the Allies will announce peace terms will more probably lie Berlin. Any talk of “signing treaties” with Germany is merely ludicrous. At any rate the Swiss above referred to tells ns that Prussia and Silesia were quite confident in .January, though in the other federated German States the view was hardly so optimistic. In the Grand Duchy of Baden the gradual advance of the French troops through Alsace was causing alarm and making the population think. If Von 11 Oldenburg did not take Warsaw, or succeed in driving the Russians from Austro-Hun-garian territory within a mouth, and if the Germans did not hold Calais by Faster, then t hev might make their wills, thev said. The time allowed has gone hy ; it is to be hoped the wills have been made. In Saxonv no doubt was felt as to the final result, and the Prussian declarations were published daily in the Press. Tn AVurtemherg the pinch was beginning to lie felt, and there was a general air of uneasiness which no one endeavoured to

conceal. The most severely tried and afflicted and most depressed kingdom was Bavaria. The Bavarians complained that Prussia was keeping for herself goods intended lor the Army, and consequently money was more rate in Bavaria, than in any of the other States, in the opinion of the Swiss, ( whose impressions are recorded, Germany prepared and confident ot a vic- ( torious campaign of three or four months, and not at all ready tor a long war, was now “absolutely lost.” Heading between the lines of the cable, messages from every trout, it looks| as though the end is within sight, nndj the day not far distant when the vile disturber ol tlie peace of the universe will be beaten back shamed and broken.