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Mr. Charles Tower (lately Correspon-
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Dr. Paul Goldmann, the Berlin cor. respondent of the Vue Freie Presse, has succeeded in interviewing General von Hindenburg, the German national hero, pending the next Russian onslaught. The following is the translated text of the General's observations :
I should like to go to war, but as I am only a girl I must be content with marrying someone who has been in the fight. So please, sir, see that sufficient young men come home again. But when will that be? How long will the war
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"The Russians are good soldiers, and GERMANY AND THE EAST. maintain discipline, and discipline ulti- mately decides the campaign. "But Rus siau discipline is something other than German and Austro-Hungarian dis- In · our armica it 39 cipline.
de the result of esprit and morale: in the Russian armies it is rather dumb, blunt obedienec. The Russians have learned much since their war with Japan: their strength lies in the open field. They are brilliant at dig ging themselves in Our men, too, have Learned that now. But there will soon be an end of this digging-in when the
advantages which a winter campaign DEMONSTRATE ground freezes hard. That is one of the gives us against the Russians. When they can no longer slitk into the ground they will have a bad time of it.We are not in the least afraid of the Russian superi ority of numbers: superiority belongs to them, it is their principal weapon. They were three to one at Tannenberg, and you have seen how much it helped them there. But superiority in numbers is not deci- sive; at the present stage of the war it is less decisive than before,
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The efforts of Germany to place "the curpa gorgeous East in Ice" to her ambitions receive fresh illumination from the| despatches of the British Ambassador to Constantinople, says the Full Mall Gazette. Sir Louis Mallet's story of the helplessness with which the Porte sue cumbed to the intrigues and aggression of the Kaiser's agents gives a strange picture Man's malady. So thoroughly effeté was the political system of Turkey that of the culminating phase of the Sick
one or two strong-willed men were able to usurp the whole authority of a paralytic Empire and use the remnant of its resources at their own pleasure. It is clear that Turkey as a whole had no desire for war, while the Sultan, bis, Heir Apparent, the Grand Vizier, a majority of the Ministry, and a considerable section of the Committee of Union and Progress were for preserving neutrality. But the FRIGHTFULNESS OF WAR
patient had no longer the use of com- "The Russians won't roll over us; on munication between his brain and limbe. the contrary, they are getting stale, All Enver and his German confederates were signs point to their soon boing at the end able to do as they chose with Army and of their tether. They are beginning to Navy, while the nominal rulers of the lack arms and anaounition, and also they Empire babbled helplessly of good inten- are going hungry. Even their officers are tions. The whole narrative constitutes a short of food. The country, too, is euf-death bed scene worthy of Hogarth in his fering distress; Lodz is starving. That grimmest mood.
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is regrettable, but it is a good thing, for This body snatching" exploit repre sun conduct no war with senti sents the single success gained by Germany mentality. The more, brutal the conduct in her programme of rousing the Orient of war is the more charitable it really is, to the embarrassment of her antagonists. for the sooner it will be ended. One may It has yet to be proved that the utmost observe even by the way in which the exertions of Turkish troops and German Russian troops fight that soon they will be officers in Asia Minor and Syria can ablo to fight no longer. There is great
produce any diversion serious enough we occupy the Russian coal-fields. not know if Petrograd gets its coal from Poland, but when the northern harbours freeze how is Russia to import English coal
The war with Russia at present is principally a war of nerves, A General Staffaeust have no nerves, for a nervous General Staff infects the whole army with on uneasy spirit.. If Germany and Austria-Hungary have the steadier nerves, and will hold on, they will win, And they will have the better nerves, and they will hold on."
Two of General von Hindenburg's staff with whom the correspondent also spoke were General Ludendorff and Lieut. Colonel Hoffmann, The latter observed: We have the feeling of absolute saper riority over the Russians. We must win General Ludendorff, and we will win." who is well known as the "monosyllable General," merely said, "We'll do't."
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to lighten the pressure of the Allies upon SATURDAY, JANUARY the territory of the two central Powers. Russia has shown herself quite capable of-holding the Caucasus line and probably a good deal more, while British forces are advancing ap the Euphrates Valley and awaiting an-attack on Egypt with con- siderable complacency. The one locality in which the Holy War" has been taken seriously is Tripoli, where it can only serve to accelerate the adhesion of Italy to the cause of the Entente.
How far-reaching-were- the-prepara tions of German conspiracy in this diree- tion is shown by the remarkable dis coveries reported from Canada in connection with the mogain Maru. It appears that that vessel, which caused so much trouble at Vancouver with ber cargo of sui-diment Sikhs demanding admission to the Dominion, was chartered by a German firm to Hongkong, and it is significant that the first news of its enter- prize reached the Canadian authorities Describing the roads in Russian Polned, from Berlin. Its passengers, moreover, von Hindenburg said:
"It is impossible to imagine them, Onin tad of British Indian subjects burning one muia road wo came across an obstructo asert their Imperial status, turn out tion. We could see nothing at all on the to have been, in the main, a choice surfue, but when the thing was removed.im of desperadoes from Shanghai it proved to be the carcass of a horse, and the neighbouring ports a fact which which had completely disappeared in the more than accounts for the outbreak which followed the vessel's return to Calcutta. morass of mud.
The General said he had received a let-Evidently Germany calculated upon pro ter from someone unknown 'bitterly abus-viding a bone of contention between the Government and its Hindu ing him because Russian cavalry and Inion
subirets to supplement the Mussulman again appeared in some frontier town.
I-cano present tha" alienda on behalf of the Caliph of Berlin, General It is bound to happen ones And as the trouble at Vancouver reached
and again. I can't line up my troops all
its culmination some weeks before the
along the frontier like a sanitary cordon. declaration of war. It provides a fresh The only way to spoil the Russians' comment upon what the Imperial Chan pleasure in staying on German soll is con- cellor claimed the other day for the stantly to reassemble our armies and con-defensiva" character of his country's stantly to defeat the enemy."
diplomacy. Germany's endeavours to wreck the civilisation of Europe and Asia alike are surely the most extensive web of evil ever spun from the brains of meu,
The public should not be so nervous," added General Ludendorff,
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Dr. Coldmann (whom I knew in Berlin as an Anglophobe) continues his report as follows:
"At General Hindenburg's headquarters
there is no hatred of the Russians; and MOSQUITO WARFARE,
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it is even admitted that the Russians fight honourably. There is also recognition for Lbe French defence of their country. is only the English who are hated here as elsewhere, General Hindenburg said the Crown Prince of Bavaria expressed his (the General's) own feelings in his general order describing the English as the enemy. On the other hand, there is no tendency to underestimate the warlike qualities of the English. Their military efficiency, said von Hindenburg, was no surprise for the German General Staff. The German public had estimated the English Army as sort of rifle-club, but the German General Staff knew from the outset that even on land they would prove opponents to be reckoned with."
THE GENIUS OF COMMANDER SAMSON.
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cover for those two gung. Occa- all eally all the pretty stories about his hav- sionally they got somewhere near the spot ing been summoned from bed to take command then Commander Samson came in. mand in the East, and also of his having The armoured train would puff out to gives a surface which will reflect like a taken annually a holiday studying the a point almost on top of the German mirror, when viewed at an angle. Masurian lakes.
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it is not even true that I dragged an old the armoured train, but before they could Cannon through the swamps to see how get a range it would have disappeared deep it would sink into the morass. Those like a will-o'-the-wisp. only to reappear gall-stones are the plague of my ilfe. Not at another point, to give the invaders samples:-
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On another occasion two machine guns continually annored
The General further suggested that hender Samson has a special genius. was in no need of the strategie
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side perhaps I would do it.
xt of the let The Germans were surprised to see a Dr. Goldmann quotes the text of the let low slate-coloured car rushing out of the ter from a Tirolese girl to which von English lines, followed by a heavy but Hindenburg made his oft- quoted erratic fusillade
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