The Western Front

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 246, 26 March 1915, Page 5

The Western Front

AFTER NEUVE CHAPELLE,

, RECKLESS COURAGE OF OUR OFFICERS.

INDIANS SPOILING FOR FIGHT.

London, March 24. The British "Eyewitness" at hcad- . quarters states that German during the fighting at Nctiv c Chapelle and .in the counter-attackj from Bor.-tliiuie/. Were tremendous. Line after line went . down before the British rifles. The officers displayed reckless conr-.-•ge. The Indians are especially tlat»l, oontuinallyf asking for another fight. •Onr troops have shown that they oin ueadnre great losses. W ' GERMANY WANTS REVENGE. Amsterdam, March 24 After the battle of Neuv e < hapolle, iPlinee Rupert of' Bavaria i-su.d an .army order hrsistinjr upon th» n ■(•••--:!. •Of fortifying against furt'ier Rr'.tnh attacks. He concluded: "Our day of rc»TCnge will come."

FROM GERMAN LETTERS.

INCREDIBLE CREDULITY

■•.SUFFRAGETTES IN OUR RANKS.

PRAISE FOR THE BRITISH.

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Beceired March 25, 5.33 pjn. London, March 25. "Eyewitness" quotes letters fouud on •German prisoners to show the astonishing credulity of the people. One, writ- ' ten at Magdeburg on iOtli February, .gays: "Several battalions of sufi'ragV-tles hav e been landed at Havre, with five hundred in each battalion. Don't iet them scratch out your eyes, and, above -•11, don't let them capture you. That would shame vou before the whole world. England can only last a month without imports, so the blockade will soon end the war." A great many describe the lack of necessaries, and express an earnest de--nre for peace. The general impression gained is that undoubted distress exists among the .poorer classes, but there are great expectations still of an early victory. But "the situation has created some anxiety, and there is even a little doubt in some ■quarters. It is significant, however, that those most earnestly desiring peace do not appear to contemplate the possibility of purchasing it by an admission of defeat, which to the vast majority appears as remote and unthinkable as ever. A letter from Saxony says: 'lt is terrible to see the old men and the untrained Landsturm being commandeered." An officer writes: ". . . though most of us agree tltat one Britisher is wort'i three Germans, and what their staff doesn't know about war device} is not worth knowing. Their trench equip- ' tnent is magnificent, anrLd||wr methods ' beyond praise. Their fißi mortars are a wonderful piece of Wfntific work. They make no reports, the bombs being propelled by compressed air. Our- make • row like a thunder-c'ap."' Prisoners taken are well drc-=ed, and have plentv of rations and boots to i>re▼ent frostbite. The prisoners are fine 6U» men, and quite young, mostly tinder twentv.