By the way, it has been mentioned more than once in the "Ostasiatitcher Lloyd" messages that the Algerian troops would shortly have to be sent back to Africa owing to the approach of cold weather; then, if we recollect rightly, that they had actu been sent. It would no doubt suit the Germans very well if this were true. Unluckily for them, a correspondent pointe out, the Algerian troops can stand cold weather quite well, as shown when they fought through the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, when the winter was particularly hard. In all these German reports there is an interesting contrast between the statements attributed to German Headquarters in Belgium and alleged telegrams from New York, Ban Francisco ete, The Headquarter's messages are invariably more interesting for what is left out than for what is said, but they
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