GERMAN COLLAPSE BELIEVED POSSIBLE.
GREAT SUSPENSE IN GERMANY. NEW YOKE, July 11. Yon Weigand's despatch cabled today is regarded in America as the first indication of the fear of defeat :n Germany. The paragraphs praising the German troops are interpreted as a significant admission of disquietude, suggesting that Weigand believes a German collapse is possible and wishes to say so between the hnes. thus escaping the censor's vigilance. He says: — The . thin, anaemic line of Hindenberg, Prince Leopold, Lmsingen and Bothmer is struggling against almost overwhelming odds, often four or five to one. Fresh Russian armies equipped with ammunition from Japan and America, are beating against those thin lines with the eea*oof the sea, that cannot be otherwise than discouraging to the stoutest hearts. He continues : Germany is practically without news from her own side. In no great battle of equal proportions during the war have the German military authorities given so little information. Undoubtedly there is great suspense in Germany.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 13 July 1916, Page 5
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161GERMAN COLLAPSE BELIEVED POSSIBLE. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 13 July 1916, Page 5
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