Word: lokal
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...Lokal Anzeiger, Berlin daily: " Why did Kaiser Wilhelm try to suppress this play? Well, he fares very badly in it; but, despite his charges of malice against the author, it must have painfully struck his conscience that much of it is only too good a likeness, is only too true. Of course, Emil Ludwig could not have written this play before the war. He had first to free himself from the conventional prejudices and fetters from which we all suffered then. We all look on these things with different eyes now that a catastrophe has opened thema catastrophe for which...
...press. The War Office, in its communique, admitted briefly that their permanent positions had been broken into on a short front. But the interpretation accorded this admission in the newspapers is bound to have a greater effect on public opinion, and one of the most representative of these, the Lokal Anzeiger, actually attempts to portray it as a moral victory for the Germans. "The British attempt to break through," it writes, "collapsed entirely in the face of the extraordinary bravery of our troops. It went no farther than the initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack...