Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 27 March 1915, Page 5

Germany

"FIGHTING ACAINST ENGLAND."

United Pbem Association. Paris, March 26.

Von llichthofen, a German diplomatist, conversing with a neutral journalist in January, stated: "We offered France and Russia peace on the basis of the cession of German Flanders to Germany, the return of ten thousand Alsatian and French people to the French, we keeping Metis. We offered Russia a status quo ante helium. Russia and France were wrong to refuse, and we must now impose our will by force. It will be necessary for Germany to attack Servia, in order to seize the SofiaConstantinople railway and thus euable Germany to establish communication with Turkey. Germany promised that Italy would obtain advantages without fighting."

GERMANS RE-OCCUPY MEMEL.

(Received 8.45 a.m.) Berlin, March 26

Official.—The Kaiser's son, Princo Joachin, with strong forces,, expelled the Russians from Merael. The Russians lost 150 killed, 500 prisoners, and three cannons.

The Russians, while traversing the coast of Poland, suffered severely from gunfire from German cruisers.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Amsterdam, March 26

Herr Liehknecht, the Socialist, has been ordered to join the Landstrnm in Lorraine. His friends do not expect him to return alive.