Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 19 September 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

LOOKING FOR WAY OUT. HINDENBURG'S STRAINED CONFIDENCE. GERMANS' TASK ON THE SOM!V!E Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assoc mum (Received 8.50 a.m.) !.. 'jv. ' Amsterdam, September 18. ; General von Hindonburg, in an in--jtej§''iew; published in the Tageblatt, re'foVrcd {q the German tasks on the ■; So'mme. .Elsewhere, he said, the difficulties .were great, but he had gooo. justification for the belief that the. Germans .would conquer. Where there's a will there's a way, and they must find that way. j -. REVOLUTIONARY PROPAGANDA. SECRET LABOR MOVEMENT. | Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, September.lS. There is uneasiness in German ruling classes concerning a secret revolutionary propaganda going on among the German workmen. The central committee of the Union, of German 'guilds condemns the.; agitation, and - warns the workers that if the agita'tors' plans are realised, the Germans will be delivered into the hands of their adversaries. BERLIN BADLY HAD. LET DOWN BY THE KAISER. FALSE HOPES OF VICTORY. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Rotterdam, September 18. Berlin was bitterly disillusioned, following the Kaiser's melodramatic telegram cßriCerning victory iriDob- ' rudja,.to the press. ..','.' '"',' ]| 'Thi \ newspapers flaW ted'great head-lines, and tbcTeity was lieflagge'd. There was hysterical rejoicing, and the people eagerly; bought later editions of the papers'; expecting to learn news of great hauls of prisoners and guns, but they only found that on the Somme, there had been disasters, including the loss of 'Fjers, Martinpuich," and Courcellette, which the military experts had just declared to be impregnable. The rejoicings ceased. There was much bitter comment at the Kaiser raising false hopes, and Be/Up. ...went teJwd 'gloomy and dispirited. . AMUSING GERMAN VERSION OF ! LIFE IN LONDON. i Press A^ociaiion—Copynglit,''Australian! and N.Z. Cable Association. ' ' ' London, September 18. The Daily Mair.s,Amstcrdam col ' res " pondent states that the German News Agency publishes an alleged interview with a Norwegian merchant from London, who spent the night shivering in a cellar at St. ' Pancras railway station during the last Zeppelin raid, with the King and .Queen, and the Duke of Connaught, who had just arrived and could not get to the Palace, owing to bombs. During li hours the King spoke but three words. The same source adds: "London is a maze of underground offices; 'shops, bars! and theatres. Practically every house is a munition';factory*'/- . GERMANY'S WAR LOAN FALLS FLAT. ■ . • , . JEWELLERY DEPOTS OPENED. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.30 a.m.) London, September 18. There is anxiety in Germany regarding the war loan. Newspapers are appealing for subscriptions, and deny that the Government contemplates raiding the savings banks or reducing the rate of interest. Offices have been opened throughout the country for the reception of jewellery, the depositors' reward being a mtdal or iron watch chain.