GOOSE STEP ON LONDON BRIDGE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 10, 13 January 1916, Page 2

GOOSE STEP ON LONDON BRIDGE

ONLY A DREAM. The most popular book of the present Berlin book season is "Hindenburg’s March to London," which purports to be a description of the closing days of the war. It has already run into many editions. The special correspondent of the Exchange in Switzerland sends the following translation of some extracts from the last chapter, in which the author describes the passage of the vast German army through the principal streets of London:— At Croydon Hindenburg passes the troops in review. The march across London Bridge begins at 9 a.in. precisely. Hindenburg, seated on bis horse, with Count Zeppelin at his side, watches intently the first regiments as they swing past doing the goose step. The Wellington and Charing Cross Bridges had been demolished on the previous day by heavy German artrrlery, and aD the traffic —tramway cars, omnibuses, tradesmen’s vans, cabs and luxurious motor-cars was concentrated upon London Bridge. Thousands swarmed on the tops of omnibuses in order to get a glimpse of Hindenburg and the "Huns." The troops marched through King William Street to the “richest place in tvworld,” that between the Mansion House, the Bank, and the Stock Exchange. Unkempt, worried-look inmembers of the Stock Exchange arn •huddled together, angry but curious. Past St. Paul’s, up Fleet Street, along the Strand, through the Mall Into clubland, the conquerors march. Mourn ful clubmen peer out at the troops. Later Hindenburg and some of the higher officers visit the Houses of Parliament. The romance closes wit** Hindenburg’s proclamation to his troops; "Soldiers, after beating a world of enemies you are bivouacking in front of Buckingham Palace.”