GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 174, 31 December 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

DESPONDENCY SETTING IN. KO PROGRESS BEING MADE. London, December 29. A German official wireless message slices that, while general confidence is tek that the Austro-German forces art progressing in the east, the official reports .'lorn the front indicate that no advantage has been won. The message aiso calls attention to the lack of Austrian progress indicated by the official report from Vienna. | THE GERMAN PHYSIQUE. I NOT PHLEGMATIC, AS SUPPOSED. MORE ATHLETICS NEEDED. ; Times and Sydney Sun Services. ■ Received 30, 0 p.m. ; London, December 30, A British doctor, who spent four months m Germany, says the Germans r are supposed to he phlegmatic. This is 'incorrect. Under their calm manner they are a highly-strung and nervous people who react very easily to good or bad news. Many of the young soldiers lost their reason under fire, and went raving mad. The first line of troops is composed of hard fellows, able to bear the fatigues and discomforts of a rapid campaign. The, second line is of much lower physique, because thev had begun to live comfortably, and ' lacked the stomach for war, thus revealing the essential weakness of the German nation —a tendency to get out of condition at a relatively early age.