GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 October 1917, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

> r f ; GOING TO PIECES. < ■ : GERMAN MILITARY MACHINE. > NEW YORK, October 21. Mr. Frank Simonds, editor of the New York, “Tribune,” who has spent most of the last three years on the various fighting fronts, in a striking article, in the New York, “Tribune” says that the British thrust threatens the whole German position from Lille to Verdun. Only bad weather will delay the enemy’s retreat to the Meuse. The real meaning of British strategy is to, force a retirement to the Ant-werp-Brussels-Verdun line. The British would probably reach the MeninRoulcrse line this year. Although the Russian collapse reached many thousand of Germans they are unable even to hold down the Allies who are clearly over the crest of the hill. The Prussian, military machine is slowly but surely going to pieces. GERMANY'S LOST CONFIDENCE FAITH IN KAISER CRUMBLING. WASHINGTON, Oct 21. The State Department has issued an article appearing in the Swiss newspapers by Prince zu Hohenlohe, son of the late German Chancellor who says that while the majority of Germans favour the monarchy, it is undeniable that a revolution may break out. The people’s confidence in the Kaiser is crumbling, and they are beginning to ask why the world is 1 against Germany. i ! FOR NURSES. LONDON, Oct 21. The committee of the British Women’s Hospital Association is appealing for an Empire Fund for the benefit of nurses whose health has been impaired through war work, also to endow a college of nursing, which shall stand in the same relation to the nursing profession as the colleges for physicians and surgeons to medis ; cine and surgery ,