KAISER’S CONSOLATION.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 May 1918, Page 5

KAISER’S CONSOLATION.

DEVASTATION IN FRANCE. PREPARING FOR FIFTH WINTER. LONDON, April 16. The frontier correspondent of the’ Amsterdam Telegraaf states that long trains of reinforcements largely mere hoys are travelling to the west, many from Eoumania. The air force is recruiting w r ith great Usually -.there are hundreds of vacancies. Many are given only a month's training. Allied airmen continue to be active on the frontier. They bombed and ■partly destroyed Menin. They killed many bandsman who were practising on the Casino. The Kaiser addressed the TowQ Council at Aix-la-Chapelle, and said that anyone w 7 ho "was faint-hearted would bear the hardships andi sorrows of war patiently if they saw half-de-vastated France and appreciated what Germany had esqaped. A difficult; task was ahead of them, but the offensive was going well. They must show patience, as armies of millions could not bo settled in one day, Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that Hem Haussmann, a prominent South German Democrat*; speaking in the Upper House of the Wurtemburg Diet said: “We are prepared fpr a fifth winter of war, which, is apparently inevitable. Germany wall be compelled to keep up .a great force in the east if she is not victorious in the west. A compromise with the present British Cabinet is impossible. 71