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Show Officers Not So Arrogant. BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS. Aug. 25. (Router's) The demeanor of hundreds of German officers taken prisoner recently is in striking contrast con-trast with the attitude of officers captured cap-tured during the British retreat last spring. Then German officer prisoners prison-ers were arrogant and meant to crush the British to earth; but now they are depressed and very anxious. They appear very willing to talk and the tenor of their conversation may be summed up as follows: "They say Germany entered the war with enthusiasm: but this has long since disappeared and the struggle has become an economic one with Great Britain. They admit that Germany is in practically a hopeless condition, both economically and from the man power point of view and ask whether Great Britain cannot now consider Germany sufficiently reduced to be no longer a dangerous trade rival or whether the allies intend to crush her altogether. In the latter case, they say, Germany will be forced to fight to the last, but they make no effort to conceal their impression of what this means for the fatherland. They say they believe there is every' disposition to evacuate evacu-ate Belgium and northern France and even negotiate the Alsace-Lorraine question. They arc generally unanimous unani-mous in agreeing that annexations thus far made and the Brest -Litovsk peace treaty were a great mistake but think they cannot withdraw from Russia Rus-sia in the present conditions of affairs there. |