GERMANS' HARD WINTER.
1 London, Jan. 22. The Times correspondent at British headquarters on the west front states that the Germans are spending their worst winter of the war, owing to the loss of high ground and of their comfortable trenchee. The British have secured a corresponding advantage by the change. Prisoners who come into the British lines af; so mud-caked on arrival that they aeed scraping. They describe maiiy of the trenches as being knee-deep in mire. and jay that it is necessary to bail out the leaky dug-outs. The hardships the Germans are suffering tend to increase malingering among the nsiu A favorite method is to sham the effects of gassing. The Germans in some portions of the lines are distinctly inclined to fraternise with the British. This is the outcome of a growing anticipation of an early peace compromise,. Information received at Amsterdam is that the German troops on the Russian front are employed to the utmost in order to keep their minds otV the Maximalist doctrines, the prevalence of which is causing anxietv to the commanders. One German division has been sent from Belgium to Russia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1918, Page 6
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190GERMANS' HARD WINTER. Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1918, Page 6
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