BEGINNING TO WAVER.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 September 1918, Page 6

BEGINNING TO WAVER.

SPIRIT OF THE ENEMY. MORAL PANIC SPREADING. LONDON, Sept 9. Reuter’s correspondent at Amsterdam reports that a number of the leading German newspapers are voicing similar and apparently inspired protests against the publication of the Allies’ communiques. The Saxon Minister for the Interior, speaking at Dresden, emphasised the present need,- “Because the Fatherland is in danger,” for all parties, from pacifists to annexationists, to draw closer together on the policy of holding out. He said: The present is the hardest time of all, because our old courage and old resolute spirit seem to be beginning to wear. In an article in Vorvaerts Colonel Gedke anticipates a British attack in Flanders. He points out that of 32 strong American divisions only nine have been employed in important fighting, and ten have not yet been engaged at all. Moreover, only about half of the British divisions have been thrown into the fight. Another ins'tance of the efforts of the German authorities to stay the present moral panic in Germany is a lecture in Berlin by General von Preytag Loringhoveh, Deputy Chief of the Feneral Staff, who admitted that "we expected too much from unrestricted submarinism, and again at the beginning of the spring offensive.”