Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1915, Page 5

Germany

| BRITAIN AND THE WAR. BELATED OPINION OF MOLTKE, (Received 9.0 a.in.) Amsterdam, January 22. ; General Non Moltke, in an inteiI view published by Berlin papers, said i he never for a moment doubted Britain j would participate in the conflict. Britain’s self-interested policy alone was unchanged. She ,had been prepared for war for a long time. The Belgian question was a pretext merely. I NATIONAL ACCOUNT-BOOK. GERMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP’S WAR PASTORAL. Tiuiia and Sydney Sun Service#. (Received B.U a.m.) London, January 22. The Catholic Bishops in Germany have issued a war pastoral, which Isays: “We do not wish to busy ourselves with the account-book of other nations, but with our own. We would not examine the enemy’s conscience, but our own. We are innocent of the outbreak of war—it was forced upon us; that we can testify to before God and the world. Hardly a household is without its member to bewail. Still there is no end in sight. The one thing certain only is that much misery still awaits us.” GOO,OOO PRISONERS IN GERMANY lr-i and Sydney Sun Sanv-oia. London, January 22. A Berlin official message claims that the Germans have captured over 600,000 prisoners. AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. Timm and Sydney Sun Bar vices. London, January 22.

Baron Burian, Austrian Foreign Minister, is due at Berlin on Saturday to confer with Herr von Jagow (German Foreign Minister). The Austrian heir-apparent arrives simultaneously at the German headquarters to confer with the Kaiser. THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 22. A Copenhagen message states that the Duke of Cumberland, on being frtterviewed in Vienna, declared that a German-born naturally feels himself a German in the present war. The Duke hopes for a speedy victory for the Austro-German arms.

The message recalls the fact that the Duke and Duchess demonstratively departed from Copenhagen when the Kaiser in 1903 proposed a visit.