WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GERMANY?

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 5, 1 October 1917, Page 5

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GERMANY?

NO NEWSPAPERS ALLOWED OVER THE FRONTIER Amsterdam, September 28. Only smuggled German newspapers are arriving, 5n consequence of serious international trouble. Travellers leaving Germany are searched for newspapers — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ENEMY'S ECONOMIC RUIN FIGURED BY TRILLIONS. Amsterdam, September 28. Speaking at the election of the Rector of Berlin University, Professor Penck declared that the German losses abroad had been,enormous, nearly three trillion marks being in English hands alone; and this loss was irreplaceable. Germany must begin where she stood eighty yeans ago, but if the loss were compensated by l:\rge colonial acquisitions ihey need not be frightened by the outlook for the future.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo .Assn. - [In the English notation a billion is a million millions, and a trillion a million billions. On the Continent and in tho United States, however - , a billion is only a thousand millions, and a trillion a thousand billions, or a million millions. A trillion marks in this reckoning totals GERMAN MUNITIONS WORKS DESTROYED. Berne, September 25. A fire completely destroyed a lurge German munitions works at Eramshopen. —Reuter. Eciio oflabern days Amsterdam, September 28. The "Militur Wochenblatt," a noted German military journal, announces that General von Deomling, of Zabern notoriety, is about to be pensioned off. It is belioved that he has been made tho scapegoat for the Verdun failure.—Aue.-1 N.Z, Cable As6ii. '