Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 70, 19 October 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

GERMANY’S RESOURCES.

PLENTY OF RESERVE TROOPS. SHORTAGE OF COPPER AND OIL THE LATEST AEROPLANES. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.50 a.m.) Petrograd, October 18. A Roumanian diplomat from Berlin declares that Germany still has considerable reserves of troops, plenty of iron, steel, and coal, hut there is a shortage of copper and oil. The Germans are constructing aeroplanes carrying twelve persons. the congest of it ! AMUSING GERMAN REVIEW. PAPER CLAIMS TO VICTORY. Press Association—Copyright. Published in “The Times.” London, October 17. The Yossiclie Zeitung, in a war rev iew, says that the Allies’ Somme offensive has been checked, and the south-eastern and Roumanian peril has been warded off. Germany is now past the danger. lire Somme offensive, the paper says, marks the zenith of the fighting since August, 1914. The effort to wrest the initiative lias secured the initiative on only a fragmentary portion, but the terrible three months’ fighting lias been merely a preliminary to the final decision, which Germany desires as much as the Allies, and it must ultimately come on the West front. Mr Lloyd George and M. Briand had brought about a co-ordination of the Allies on a grand scale. Britain wanted men and France wanted guns. They had been partly successful, and greater efforts were under contemplation for next spring. The intermingled AngloFrench armies are exchanging stuff officers, and other measures are being taken for facilitating the common blow, which is now purposed for 191/, thereby tacitly admitting that Germany won the Somme battle. The article concludes: “The general position everywhere is favorable to Germany.” RUSSIA AND GERMANY. SEPARATE PEACE PROPOSAL, Press Association. -Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Amsterdam, October 1/. The Vossiche Zeitung- declares that Constantinople is the only serious cause of disagreement between Russia and Germany, Russia has no right to its possession, but the right of its use suggests that a separate peace could bo founded -on the settlement of the Dardanelles on a new basis, disregarding England, and making Turkey the bridge instead of the obstacle to Russia’s economic interests.