GERMAN BLUFF.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 23 September 1916, Page 4

GERMAN BLUFF.

Whatever may have lieou the ease ir. the earlier days of the war, there is evidence that the Germans are not nearly so well informed about our military dispositions as some writers in the Press have represented, says the London correspondent of the l.y tel ton Times. Much was made at th time ol I he. fact, that when the Au»-

tralians wont into tho trenches for tho first time they were greeted by the Gor_ mans with ironical messages. ‘this appeared to suggest very intimate acquaintance on the part of the enemy with what was going on behind our lines. But, as a matter of fact, 1 ani told that messages of a precisely similar character were raised above the trenches at other parts oi the Bntisn front where iho:t a ere no Australians at -all. It would s'-m.i a lair deduction from this that though tie' ‘humans know the Anz.aea were under orders for the front treiu lies they had no notion at all as to the point where they would appear. The suppression of tlie Army List and the numerous battalions in which some of our most famous regiments are now divided must increase the difficulties of the (human Intelligence Department in forming an opinion of our military dispositions.