GENERAL WAR ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 66, 17 November 1914, Page 5

GENERAL WAR ITEMS

GERMANY'S WINTER PLAN OP CAMPAIGN. STRENGTHENING OF WESTERN FORCES POSSIBLE. THE NEED FOR BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS. """" Press Association. —Copyright. (Rec. 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 16. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent strongly foreshadows tH l possibility cf the Germans sparing troops for rhe western front after retiring behind the formidable lines of defence traversing Cracow Appeln and Bres!'iu. Hence the vital necessity for Britain e.dding continually to the a,**iy at the front. PARALYSING GERMAN TRADE. M CAILLAUX'S MISSION. (Received 8.15 a.m.) PARIS, November 10. M. Caillaux, accompanied by his wife has gone to Brazil on a mission to encourage French trade against German. SWEDEN'S NEUTRALITY. PETROGRAD, Nov. 16. A report from Finland states that the Russians have withdrawn all their troops from east and west Finland to join the main army. This is accepted es an indication that the fear of a possible Swedish invasion has vanished. The action has created a great impresosioii in Sweden. THE SCANDAL OF IT. SLAUGHTER OF GERMAN YOUTH. PETROGRAD Nov. .10. An officer who has returned from East Prussia states that the Germans are sending whole companies of infantry composed exclusively of youths, none of whom are more than fifteen or sixteen, into the battle line. It is sad to see them move forward shoulder to shoulder like automatons, only to be cut down by the Russian machine-guns. TO CAPTURE GERMAN TRADE. LONDON, Nov. 16. ' Messrs. Vickers are erecting a factory to capture the Gorman sewing machine trade. ANOTHER GERMAN SPY. LONDON, Nov. 15. Horst von der Gotte, alias Bridgmann Taylor, claiming to be an officer in rlie Mexican Army, has been arrested for failing to register. Counsel prosecuting stated that the Foreign Office and the Admiralty had the gravest suspicion that he was a German spy. GERMANY'S ARMY. BERLIN, Nov. 15. (OtJicif.l).—Four and a half million men are now mobilised, including 5000 volunteers over 45 years of age.-- < Times and Sydney Sun Services). MORE GERMAN ATROCITIES. LONDON, Nov. 16. It is reported that the Germans retreating from Poland propped up the bodies of prominent citizens at the corners of streets as h warning to those remaining against betnyi. They also cut pictures of the Virgin from iron frames, substituting photographs of the Kaiser.