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Show HIGH TRITE Pi TO FMCQ11GE German Officer at Same Time Gives His Own Troops Better of It. Special Cable to The Tribune. MUNICH, June 10. A high Bavarian official, who is in charge of some of the German field roads before Verdun, writes home: The defenders of Verdun fight with admirable bravery and their artillery does good work. Whenever, they are driven out of a position the French counter-attack at once with death-defying courage, but their efforts are vain, because the territory conquered by our troops is always quickly and impregnably fortified. The French army is brave and capable, but it will never reach the wonderful organization and efficiency which make our soldiers sol-diers invincible. - ' There is no hope that France will lay down her arms until the nation realizes that Germany can never be crushed. The war will go on even if Verdun falls, because the bitter hatred of every Frenchman against the Germans will not permit peace. We have tried to overcome this hatred by kindness toward the population pop-ulation of the conquered provinces, but our efforts in this direction are of no avail. The French civilians behind our front willingly work for us and take the high wage's we pay them, but their hate remains and they have but one thought and wish: Germany must be wiped off the map of Europe and the entire German nation killed. Since the battle before Verdun began the confidence of Frenchmen has been considerably shaken. The churches behind our front are now filled daily with praying multi-tudesj multi-tudesj while formerly they were generally empty. Men, women and children implore Jeanne d'Arc, the patron saint, to deliver France from the "Boches. " It is almost pathetic how . this people, in their passionate hato, take new hope from the slightest success which the allies may gain somewhere. Last fall, when General Gen-eral Joffre began his offensive in the Champagne, the proprietor of the hotel in which I have "my quarters quar-ters said, triumphantly: "In four weeks the last German soldier will be driven from French soil." When the "great offensive" broke down and the German, Aus-tro-Hungarian and Bulgarian armies conquered Serbia the good man 6aid : "Just wait till spring! We will . then have bo many guns that your whole army will be in full retreat to the frontier within a week after General Joffre strikes. ' ' Since the advance of the army of the German crown prince against Verdun began the man has become quite melancholy. Last week he said to me: "Tell me of some kind of vic-.tory vic-.tory of our troops, even if it is not true! These everlasting reports of German successes drive rne to insanity, although I do not believe them I I cannot bear the thought j that you barbarians should come out I of the war victorious." |