The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-09
GERMANS DREAD
 FUTURE OF WAR
One Paper Expresses Fear of "An End of Terror
 as in Russia.

london, Aug. 9.-The despondent tone of the latest German press com ments is emphasized daily III special dispatches from Holland. A dis patch to The Daily Mail from The Hague today includes an editorial by the Dusseldorf Nachrichten, which says that nobody looking into the fu- ture can see an end to the war.
 "For thought it is true that the end might come quickly" it adds, "it could only be an end of terror as in Russia"
 Vorwaerts of Berlin says that events of recent days at last have shattered the illusion, created by inspired op- timism, that Germany is invincible. It says:
 "Tho German people at last realize the colossal gravity of the situation. Let us have courage to admit that as long as the war is not ended it is not won and can be lost"
 The principal North German organ of the majority Socialists, the Burger Zeitung of Bremen, says:
 "Black and dark is the hour. The sacrifices made by the people are im- measurable and those of the fifth year of the war will be gigantic, but no refreshing breath of freedom and civ ic equality blows through the oppres- sive night of our discontent."
 Reserve Strength Still Left.
 The Germans are not likely to re- main on the defensive long, accord ing to General von Ardenne, the mili- tary critic of the Berlin Tageblatt, as quoted in an Amsterdam dispatch.
 ''It Is clear that the defensive bat tie fought by our retreating troops will not continue indefinitely" says General won Ardenne. "The German offensvie has suffered an unpleasant interruption, but it will certainly re- vive, and what will contribute to it's revival is that the fact that the ar mics between the Aisne and the Marne was able to carry out their operations with their own reserves, without being obliged to draw upon the other reserves, the unrestricted possession of which secures the ini- tiative to the German Supreme Com mand."
 Captain won Salzmann, the military critic of the Vossische Zeiutng of Der lin takes the view that German op- eratipns south of the Aisne are ap- preaching a termination and the great advance upon the Marne has come definitely to an end. He pictures the German forces as retiring into a stronghold whose gates are slowly closing.
 The writer pays a high tribute tc General Ludendorff for the latter's frank admission that German opera. tions have not gone so satisfactorily as had been hoped. This he regards as a sign of high confidence on the part of the supreme command
 There was no talk of victories that were not won" he says. and he ask: he German public to be proud of z retreat during which the German troops repeatedly turned upon theil pursuers, inflicting heavy losses" Thi. retirement, he says, will be an exam pie as a strategic retreat for all times
 The new front upon which Captain won Salzmann expects the Germans tc stand, and which he believes will be stoutly held, runs from southwest O. Rheims along to Vesle River pas Condo, joining the old German front line north of the Aisne. Desultory fighting, he predicts, surely will de velop on the new Vesle-Aisne iron and. he says, 'it will be to our inter est if the enemy attacks in fore, here"
 Austrian Praise Of FocE1,
 Zurich. Aug. 9.-The German hope of ending the war by military decision before the arrival of the American was blasted by the recent allied often sive, the Socialist newspaper Arbei ter Zeitung of Vienna points out il concluding a recent article on tn, military situation.