Germany.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 57, 23 October 1914, Page 6

Germany.

GERMAN GENERALS. SUPPLANTING AUSTRIAN COMMANDS. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, October 22. German officers have assumed the higher commands in the Austrian army while the Austrian troops are mixed with German soldiers and all the armies are commanded hy German generals. BELIEVED TO BE A PRISONER. (Received 9 f*{m.) Hague, October 22. The Kaiser's son-in-law, who was leading the Vieten Hussars on the French front, is missing. It is believed he was cut off and taken prisoner. HOSTILITY TO HOLLWEC. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 22. . An influential section of the German Press has-opened a campaign of hostility against Dr. Bethmann Hollweg, describing him to be a mere quill-driver who seeks to rob the sword of the fruits ofvictbi-y. GUN STORIES FOR BERLIN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m. ) London, October 22:

A correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung thus describes the action of the German forty-two centimetre guns: "Two Krupps are ready after three days' work. Their mouths are lowered so that shells may be placed in them with greater ease. Then they stand erect, proudly looking to the sky. The distanco has been determined and the great moment has arrived. Carefully the fuse is brought to the trigger which is to be pulled by two men. An officer calls: 'Fire!' and a gigantic ball of fire, forty feet in diameter, is formed at the cannon's mouth. A deafening crash resounds and a strong air-pressure is felt. Win-dow-panes in a house 350 feet in front of the gun are all shattered and the roof is- partially carried off. little round body appears above the mouth of the barrel, which :,rises-straight in a steep line and disappears after a second in the clouds driven upward with the ease of a child's] ball. The impression the atmosphere gives is of the gigantic, and even at a great distance, with our quarters 850 yards removed'from the guns, our house gets a shock l at every shot."