Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 44, 23 February 1915, Page 5

Germany

A POPULAR. GENERAL.

PROBABLE CHANCE OF COMMAND FROM EAST TO WEST.

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, February 22

Amsterdam reports that German military critics expect that, in view of General Hindenberg’s increasing popularity, the Kaiser will shortly send him to the Western front. Hindenberg’s repeated successes against the Russians have caused the people to regard him as their saviour, and his popularity far exceeds that of the Kaiser, or the Crown Prince. MORE TRIAL FOR BELGIAN PARENTS . (Received 9 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 22. Germany is heavily fining Belgian parents whose sons fled to join the Belgian forces.

LIFE IN MUNICH.

PREPARATIONS FOR LONG WAR.

United Peess Association. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 22

A Neutral correspondent says the people of Munich are preparing for a long war. The women are taking up office work, and cleft ring the snow from thd streets. There is little demonstration of the warlike spirit. The artistic life continues as usual. All over Germany the museums and galleries are open, being filled with wounded soldiers.

CERM-HUN ATROCITIES.

A BLOOD-THIRSTY DISCLAIMER.

[United Pbebb Association.] ■, (Received 8 a.in.) London, Februai’y 22. A Bavarian officer, in, writing to a friend in England, disclaims the atrocities, and says: “Of course, when the civilians fired and our men were .shot, the villages were burned. The blood of our worst soldier is of greater value to us than a whole town in Belgium.”