Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 5

Germany

AT THE OUTSET OF THE WAR. TESTIMONY OF THE ORANGE ’ , BOOK. United Peesb Association. Petrograd, January 8. An Orange Book affords the most striking testimony of the unprecedented lengths to which Russia, in conjunction with England and France, proceeded, hoping- to avert the-conflict, and shows that the Russian Ambassador was minutely informed of every German move at Constantinople. Reporting on September 10, he said that Enver Pasha had received a letter from Germany, intimating that the moment had arrived for Turkey to fulfil her obligations by the invasion of Egypt and landing at Odessa. KAISER MENTALLY IMPAIRED. FRICTION WITH THE ? STAFF. (Received 9 a.m.)

London, January 8. Copenhagen reports that the Kaiser has become mentally impaired by the strain of his suffering and the constant friction between him and his general staff. ON THE TRACK OF THE MERCIER PASTORAL. THE MASS INTERRUPTED. Tuna and Sydney Sun Bisviom. (Received 8 a.m.) London, January 8. Amsterdam reports that the Germans imprisoned the printer of Cardinal Mercier’s pastoral, and despached couriers in motor cars and interrupted the reading of the pastoral during Mass. They removed priests from the sacristy and confessional. One paper declares it should not be astonished if the Germans did not dare to maintain the arrest, which, was the cause of a formidable movement in the Catholic world. Militarism, like the bee, stings when in a rage. HERR BALLIN’S ADMISSIONS. NAVAL BASE FOR GERMANY. (Received 9 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 8. Herr Ballin, writing in the Frankfurter Zeitung, admits that Britain had brought Germany’s oversea trade to a standstill. The North Sea was easily blockaded. England’s piratical pressure upon Scandinavia and Holland would have been impossible if Germany had a proper naval base, and she must in the future seek a base beyond the North Sea area. Herr Ballin in November said England was already beaten because she had hidden her fleet.

GENERAL. London, January 8. Berlin announces that the Russians show that they are tired of the war. Amsterdam, January 8. The Telegraaf’s Berlin correspondent states that Indian prisoners in the concentration camp near Berlin will shortly he transported to Turkey with otlm’- Moslem contingents. reference to the Turkish debacle has been made in the German newspapers.