General

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 26, 17 September 1914, Page 6

General

London, September 15

Berlin advices admit partial repulses in, but'attribute them to the Germans having been enormously ‘ out-' numbered. They assert that the ■general advance of the Germans is not* affected, and claim to have destroyed t’-ie Russians in East Prussia. The German Press complains that the ul _nployed difficulty is increasing because :he Trench and Russian prisoners are bung utilised for railway, road, and neld works. The Germ n Chancellor has- issued a bitter tirade against' England, in which it is asserted that in the name of freedom England, with her might and -VKth a most recklessly egotistic policy, had founded a mighty colonial ■Empire. Times and; Sydney Sun Servicef In the House of Commons, the I F; D.' ’ Acland' stated that Germ, wafi’prepared to allow English wr and children to leave, but not ,l ons of military age. : ■ Fifteen hundred ships'are idle at Hamburg. Provisions are scarce, milk and meat ■ being hardly obtainable'. Unemployment is rife. Copenhagen; September 16. Only two hundred million marks 1 but of the thousand million loan have been subscribed. .German newspapers are printing - advertisements appealing to capitalists for support. ’ Londonj September 16.

A German general, when crossing the Grand*’ Morin, told the Frenchwomen: ’The'French are done for, absolutely deotfSbrit. We will take the best men to marry sturdy German Women; sd as' to have healthy children. The rest wb will -send to America.” Later "the general with his- troops were in full ’ flight across the same crossing. *

’ The Hague., September 16. « Colonel von’ Reuter, of Zabern fame,’ and Lfoutenhnt von Forstner, were killed on the same day. Colonel von Reuter near Louvain and Lieut, von Forstner near Di»mide.