Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 7, 26 August 1914, Page 5

Germany

FOODSTUFF FOR GERMANY.

BUYERS OUTBID BRITISH BY 20 PER CENT. ! Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) ' Copenhagen, August 24. German food buyers «r# securing supplies in Denmark and Scandinavia, outbidding the English buyers by twenty per cent.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST POSSIBLE RISING OF RUSSIANS.

Berlin, August 25. Rifles have been issued to civilians, with a view to suppressing a possible rising of Russians in Germany. Fortyfive thousand Russians have been compelled, to assist in the harvesting iu Germany; otherwise they would be prisoned.

THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE.

[United Press Association.]

London, August 25. The Pan-German Press declares that the territories now being overrun by Germans will be permanently incorporated in the German Empire. Britain will pay dearly for her interference by seeing a naval base established on the Belgian coast.

THROUGH GERMAN EYES.

New York, August 24

. Count Bernstoff, the German Ambassador, interviewed, said Germany was bound to win,'because her cause was just. Italy, he said, was not likely to take further action, but would bo main neutral. The German people intended fighting to a finish. The British Government had cut the cables to tho United States, with the object oi preventing, news of German victories coming through. Concerning Great Britain's action in calling upon the Japanese, he said that doubtless they wouldi take Kiao-Chao, owing to their preponderating numbers. Then Japan would have the supremacy of the Pacific to the detriment of the United States.

Only five thousand German troops fought around Liege. The reports of a larger dumber were\ from. French sources, and were untrue. The taking of Liege by the continu" ed, was one of the greatest feats of m-ms in modern times. I , , i 1 I 'ill il i : M Mm h••

REPORTED DEFEAT OF ALLIES. mx -si ■■ £±llll ■iil*M , ««j

■. Neiw York, August U: \ Ambassador ,at Washington states that the German Army, under|. the*%and Dnkej'A£roclit, defeated 1 the**French' army at Neufchateau, in the Department of Vosges, in France, 60 miles from the German frontier, capturing over 150 guns, the prisoners -including several generals. A German force also advanced west of the Meuse, and defeated a force of British cavalry.

BOTH.SIDLES LOSE,,HEAVILY AT

VdlVh j Paris, August 24. j The War < Office has ;issudd tW following statement:—The 'German extreme right sought fco pass, our left wjng, and are now being attacked by our left, working in conjunction with the British troops, in thei vicinity ol Moris. A desperate battle 1 continues. Both sides have sustained serious losses.