GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1916, Page 5

GERMANY.

A SEVERE CRITIC. GERMAN AIMS DOOMED. CROWN PRINCE'S FOLLY. BRITISH SOLDIERS PRAISED. Received July 19, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, July 18. A Cologne correspondent, De Boed, states that on all sides it is becoming apparent that not a single German aim will be achieved. The military operations on the West front are severely criticised, particularly (lie death march towards Verdun. The Crown Prince is openly accused of a useless accumulation of troops, which could have been better employed in combating the impending victorious offensive on another front. Officers taken prisoner on the West front admit that the Germans, above all. fear the Anglo-Freneli offensives at fresh points on the front, for which the Germans have insufficient reserves. They say that every man of Kitchener's armies seems to be a sharpshooter, and their courage is equal to that of the besttrained soldiers. Trones Wood is a vast. German graveyard. More have been sacrificed there than at any point of the retreat. PERTINENT QUESTIONS. Amsterdam, July 18. Tlip Weiser Zeitung, of Bremen, has a remarkable article on Germany's position, which says: "The hour has come when we must clench our teeth, for the situation is grave. We have got our teeth in Verdun so tight that we are unable to let go; The Austrians are at a standstill on the Sette-Communi plateau; the English and French are hard upon us on the Somme; the Russians are upon us from Riga to Roumania. In every quarter there are difficulties and obstacles raising the anxious cry, 'How shall these things end?' Yet though the present is black, the future belongs to the Germans." Berne, July 18. German Socialists have circulated a manifesto in Germany entitled "Naval Bluff." It asks, "Why, if the British fleet is vanquished, the blockade continues, and why does not the German fleet bombard the English coast and land an invading army? The reason is that the naval victory is a fiction." RECKLESS SUBMARINE POLICY URGED. London, July 18. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger advocates a renewal of the submarine war owing to England's abolition of the Declaration of London forcing neutral States actively or passively to assume an attitude contrary to Germany. The paper says: '{[t is indifferent whether neutrals' follow Britain's decision from fear or sympathy. The reasons for which we stopped the submarine war have been altered, and if we are forced to begin a reckness submarine war it will be in our favor,'PEACE TERMS DISCUSSED. CHANCELLOR AND PARTY LEADERS CONFER. Received July 19, 8.35 a.m. Copenhagen, July 19. The Lokal Anzeiger states that Herr Bethmann Hollweg had a long conference on Monday with the party leaders in the Reichstag. The Chancellor made a speech in which he dealt with the military and political situation, and afterwards a lengthy discussion took place relative to peace terms.