Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 303, 21 December 1914, Page 5

Germany

SCANDINAVIA BEING URGED AGAINST BRITAIN.

Times and Sydney Sun See vices. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 19. The German press is frantically urging Scandinavia to combine against Britain for the oppression of their trade.

FOREIGNERS IN BERLIN.

RELIEF ORGANISATION’S APPEAL.

Tikis and Sydney Slin Sxevioss. (Received 8.0 a.m.) December 19. An organisation has been formed in Berlin for the assistance of aliens in Berlin, An appeal for funds says: “Foreigners in our‘midst are for the most part Germany’s best friends, being bound to us by a thousand ties.”

THE ALLEGED VICTORIES.

United Press Association.-

Amsterdam, December 19

Germany’s frenzied joy over an alleged victory has been partly solved by the arrival of German newspapers, which pause and ask why there are no names of battlefields or lists of captures. It is evident that the people have fixed on a communique’s vague reference to certain decisive operations without troubling about further details. There being no grounds for this ecstasy, a reaction set in, deepening into profound depression over the Falklands defeat and the Servian victory at Belgrade.

THE GERMAN CASUALTIES.

Amsterdam, December 19

The four last German lists show 22,001, casualties, including 1600 in a. single Wurtemburg regiment. . A Saxon regiment lost 2000 at Beckslaere, Belgium, in August. Recent lists include 30,000 casualties in the Yyer fighting.

FAILURE OF AMERICAN MIS. SION.

Amsterdam, December 20,

The German newspapers increasingly attack America. This is interpreted as a recognition that Bernstorff’s and Dernburgh’s mission has proved a failure.

* THE KAISER DEPRESSED.

Amsterdam, December 20,

The Kaiser continues to exhibit great nervous depression. The Kair serin is opposing his return to the front.