LOST ILLUSIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 59, 6 October 1916, Page 7

LOST ILLUSIONS.

GERMANS SWINDLED BY THEIR LEADERS. Mr F. W. Wile, in. the Daily Mail, st>s that, to appreciate the Germans' chastened emotions, we must recount the spiritual "rations" on which they ln-.ve lived since August, 1914. They hf.ve been restlessly assured—

That England "organised" and prepared for the war for "years." That French resistance would break down. That the Russian Army was "rotton." That Egpyt and India would join Turkey as Germany's allies. That submarines would "eliofve the British Empire to death." That the Allies would succumb to human and financial exhaustion. That England's "army of millions" was a mytli. That the Lloyd George munition organisation was a "bluff" That Britain's command of the sea was illusory. That the Gorman Navy compels the Grand Fleet to "bide." That Zeppelin Frightfulness terrorises England. That the Overseas Dominions' enthusiasm for the war would wane. That Ireland would achieve her independence. That Verdun would fall and France sue for separate peace.

Politically, the Germans are like dumb-driven cattle, yet, shepherded and gagged as they are, even the "military map," on the strength of which Her:- von Bethmann Holhveg would like to make peace, cannot conceal from them that they have been cruelly swindled in respect of every one of the cardinal propositions above mentioned. ,