Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 22 February 1915, Page 5

Germany

PARADING THE BRITISH.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF FALSE HOPE IN THE GERMAN PEOPLE.

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 20. A neutral correspondent states that the captured British artillery are being displayed in every important German town to encourage the people and strengthen their belief in the victorious outcome of the war, and to divert attention from the enormous losses.

IN QUEER STREET.

FABULOUS PRICES FOR FOOD* STUFFS. PETROL IN PETTICOATS. COPPER CASE IN COPENHAGEN. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 20. Italian wheat is being sold in Germany at thrice the figure obtainable on the Italian side of the frontier, i Germany is paying fabulous prices for foodstuffs, metals, petrol and rubber. A woman was discovered crossing the Dutch frontier bringing in petrol in specially-designed receptacles hidden in her petticoats.

Investigation of a copper case at Copenhagen disclosed the fact that smuggling operations had been going on since October, a syndicate having been operating for a German millionaire in Hamburg.

GERMAN ILL-TREATMENT.

CAUSES BISHOP'S DEATH.

FORCED TO WALK TO BRUSSELS.

United Press Association. Rome, February 17. Bishop Walravens, Bishop of Tournai, died in Berlin.

The clergy assert that his death was hastened by German ill-treatment in compelling him, though he was 74, to walk to Brussels.

MEN OVER FIFTY CALLED UP.

Paris, February 20

Official. Germany has called up men of fifty and fifty-two years of age for service.