GENERAL WAR ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 59, 9 November 1914, Page 3

GENERAL WAR ITEMS

j GERMANY’S GREAT DANGER. j RUSSIA AT THE BACK DOOR, FREMANTLE, Nov. L Mr. Alexander (manager in Perth for P, Falk), who retnmed by the R.M.S. Orsova to-day, was interned for ten days in Germany, and treated with the greatest brutality. He said that neither the present generation nor the next generation would forgive England for having participated in this war. Feeling against Britain was intensely nittor. He says that from observations made in Berlin he is convinced that the German people were not made aware of the tremendous forces opposed to them. Aboard the Orsova is Liout.-Colonel Rainaciotti, who is returning to Sydney to take charge of the 11th Infantry Brigade. He says he volunteered to the War Office for service in France > but wap not accepted. Lieut.-Col, Ramaciotti has carefully studied Italian matters, and he says that wdiile popular feeling in Italy is decidedly in favour of abandoning neutrality, the Government is very properly counting the cost, the taxes caused through the war in Tripoli had not yet been forgotten by the people. Lieut-Col. Rainaciotti recalled a conversation he had in Germany tw r elve months ago with a prominent German official. The latter said: —"War with England would be a calamity, and wo have never counted on it. We are not afraid of France—we are too strong for her. Our great danger is Russia. She i# at our back door. If Germany is ever crushed it will be by Russia, and w r e know 7 it.” BRITISH OF MILITARY AGE IN GERMANY. INTERNMENT PROCEEDING RAPIDLY. AMSTERDAM, November S. The internment of British of military age in Germany is proceeding rapidly. Two thousand have been arrested at Hamburg and 230 at Frankfort. NEARLY A COSTLY MISTAKE. GERMAN WOUNDED SHELLED BY THEIR OWN MEN. (Received 8.40 a..m) LONDON, November 8. During recent fighting in the north the Allies red cross picked up seven hundred German wounded and removed them to a held hospital, which the Germans shelled during the night not knowing that their own men were with in. The damage was small. DRIVEN TO SLAUGHTER BY THEIR OFFICERS. GERMAN SOLDIERS USE OPPORTUNITIES TO DESERT. (Received 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 8. Evidence that German officers are driving their men forward accumulates. Dead officers have been found with a dogwhip in one hand and a revolver in the other. Soldiers facing the British gladly use opportunities to escape. The British found many Germans hanged to trees. THE LATEST GERMAN RUSE. SOLDIERS IN WOMEN’S ATTIRE. (Received 9 a.m.) PARIS, November 8. A new German ruse is soldiers workin gin a field in women’s attirer The French shelled a number of grenadiers disguised as potato pickers.