Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 39, 16 June 1915, Page 5

Germany

BERLIN FROM WITHIN. PUBLIC OPINION GENERALLY. PARIS NOT OBJECTIVE NOW. ' TraKß AND Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, June .15. “Neutral observer” writes: There >.s a marked contrast to my previous visit to Berlin, many officers being at home on leave. The German plan seems to have given everyone a few months’ training and then some actual experience of lighting, and the result is a continuous coming and going ol troops. I found new confirmation of the belief current in Ungland that the German Army Corps keep changing fronts. The general opinion is that the fall of Constantinople is very remote, and is convinced that the Allies’ disposition is inadequate at the Dardanelles and that they cannot force it. Officers repeatedly said that the Turkish soldier was well fed, and when led, made as good fighting material as the armies of Europe. He excels in trench warfare and offers stubborn defensive Resistance under German direction. Efficiently equipped and organised they will probably bold their ground on the Peninsula. Russia is considered to be a stubborn and elusive enemy. Staff officers stated that if their commissariat and transport equalled their tactical skill and lighting qualities, different pages of history would be written. They beard little of the campaign on the French front, and admitted the army of the Crown Prince was nubble to retrieve its losses. Paris seemed no longer to be the objective. Different Germans here have repeatedly insisted that artillery, not men, would count in this war. The Krnpp gun which bombarded Dunkirk at a distance of twenty miles inspired as much confidence as an army corps.