IN GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 230, 19 June 1915, Page 3

IN GERMANY.

MOKE IMPRESSIONS OF A VISITOB A CONTINUOUS COMING AND GOING OF TEOOPS. A neutral observer writes that his recent visit was a marked contrast to the one he paid in February to Berlin. Many officers were home on leave. The German plan seems to give everyone a few months' training and actual experience In fighting, the result being a continuous coming and going of troops. He found new confirmaton of the belief that is current in England that the German army corps keep changing their fronts.

The general opinion jn Germany is that the fall of Constantinople is very remote. The Germans are convinced the Allies' disposition is inadequate and that the Dardanelles cannot be forced. Officers repeatedly said that the Turkish soldier was well fed, well led, and was made of as good fighting material as any army in Europe. He excels in trench warfare, and offers stubborn defensive resistance under German direction. Efficiently equipped and organised, the Turks will probably hold their ground on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Russians are considered to be a stubborn and elusive enemy. Staff officers stated that if their commissariat and transport equalled their tactical skill and fighting qualities, different pages of history would be written. The writer says he heard little of the campaign on the French front. It was admitted that the army of the Crown Prince was unable to retrieve its losses. Paris semed no longer the objective. The difference.of the Germans' tactics here is in the defensive, it bting repeatedly insisted tha artillery, not men, count in this war. The Krupp gun that bombarded Dunkirk from a distance of 100 miles inspired as much confidence as an army corps.