Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 40, 3 October 1914, Page 5

Germany

ONLY TOO TRUE. THE URGENCY OF GERMANS SUB. SCRIBING TO WAR LOAN. Times and Sydney Sun Sebvioes. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 2. The Cologne, Gazette, in urging Germans to subscribe to the war loan,says: If Germany goes under, our fortunes and. prosperity will be lost. PRINCE ADALBERT. MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE KAISER'S THIRD SON. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 2. Mystery enshrouds the whereabouts of Prince Adalbert, the Kaiser's third son. A nurse writes from Brussels stating that the Kaiser demanded the surrender of Antwerp and that King AYbert of Belgium-replied: "With the lirst shot that is fired, Prince Adalbert will be shot!" ' Antwerp residents are speculating upon the identity of a prisoner in a noii-cohimiS'siotted officer's uniform whom his fellow prisoners treated with extraordinary respect. The French papers declare that Prince Adalbert is dead.

CABLES AND MAILS. INTERRUPTIONS ISOLATE THE FATHERLAND. Times a*nd Sydney Sun Services. London, October 2. Cable connection between Sweden and Germany has been interrupted since Monday. This is ascribed to the gale. It is reported that Germany has received no foreign mails since last week. UNEXPECTED STRENGTH. DESPERATE POSITION REALISED BY GERMAN COMMANDERS. (Received 10.50 a.m.) [London, October 2." Mr Ashmead Bartlett, writing from Paris, states that all the indications point to the fact that the Germ-in commanders of troops realiso for "the first time: that they are in a desperate position. The latest attacks were haphazard. All along the line their latest plan seems to be the revision of General Von Klnck's original scheme for a general advance via Nayou, Compiegne, and Senlis. Von Kluck has been-attempting to crush the French left, thus enabling Von Buelow, the Duke of Wurtemburg and the Crown Prince to co-operate in the march on Paris. An intercepted wireless from Von Kluck on Tuesday said: The forward movement of my troops is checked and the enemy is developing forces of quite unexpected strength." A SUPREME EFFORT. TROOPS AND WAR MATERIAL RUSHING TO THE FRONT. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Rome, October 2. A telegram states that Germany is making a supreme effort to face Russia and raise the prestige of the Austrian army. All the Bohemian and Moravian railways are congested with troops and war material to prevent the invasion of Silesia.