GENERAL WAR ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 70, 21 November 1914, Page 5

GENERAL WAR ITEMS

_ -a . PEACE PROPOSALS. GERMANY'S ONLY HOPS. BRITAIN MUST BE BROUGHT TO HER KNEES. Press Association —Copyright. (Rec. 5.05 a.m.) BERLIN, Nov. 20. Herr Rohler, professor of jurisprudence, lecturing at Berlin, said: "Germany can only conclude peace with England when the later is brought to her knees and reduced to a second-rate State. When the bombs rain on Loudon wc shall all snort with glee." SUPPLEMENTARY WAR VOTE. £275,000,000 PASSED. FURTHER CONTINGENT OP MEN AUTHORISED. * (Rec. 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 20. The House of Commons agreed to a supplementary war vote of 275 millions, and also additional men. GERMAN AERIAL FACTORIES. WORKING AT HIGH PRESSURE. 10,000 VOLUNTEERS TO LEARN FLYING. (Received 8.45 a..in) LONDON, November 20. A Berlin telegram says that the aeroplane factories are. working at high pressure. Ten thousand volunteered to learn flying. FEVERISH BUILDING OF ZEPPELINS. LONDON, November 20. Munich reports that the, Zeppelin svorksofliips a,t FHtiJdrichshiofen are working day and night and turning out a new machine every week. More than forty airships are ready. Guns will be mounted on a platform on small suspended beneathL Jloaded with forty explosive bombs. Experiments in bomb dropping are being carried out nightly on Lake Constance. —Times and Sydney Sun cables. A GERMAN SPY ARRESTED. COPENHAGEN, November 20. A German spy was arrested whilst trying to open a gun breech in a fortification at Copenhagen. NEEDED ADVICE. AMSTERDAM, November 19. A Dutch newsagency states that the late King of Roumania wrote to King Albert of Belgium in July advising Belgium to devote herself to defence as the miracle of IS7O would not be repeated. A HUGE GERMAN CEMETRY. AMSTERDAM, November 19. A huge German cemetery has been made near Namur. Thousands were hurriedly ; 'bu,rieu', ,many being 1 only partially covered. A ghastly spectacle is made by the protruding limbs. Many Belgians, horrifieiV, are leaving the district. A STRAIGHT QUESTION TO ROUMANIA. NEW YORK, November 20. The Tribune has received a cable from Petrograd that three Turkish cruisers are reported to have entered Sulina, an arm of the Danube delta. As a result, Roumania has had the question put straight to her whether she take s sides with Germany ormaintains her rights and supports the law of Europe. In the latter case, the warships will be disarmed and in- ' terned. KRUPPS EXTENDING. AMSTERDAM, November 20. The newspaper Vcssiche Zeitund states that Krupps' capital has been increased by 70 million marks. The family take up the whole of the new issue FRANCE'S BROKEN BRIDGES. BRITISH P/IRM TO REBUILD. LONDON, November 20. Aii English firm has secured contracts to replace any railway bridges destroyed during the military operations in France. NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS. LONDON, November 20. A thousand Belfast Nationalists joining the Irish Brigade have sent an assurance to Mr. Asquith and Mr. Redmond that now that Home Rule Has been granted, the Nationalists will unite to the last man for the defence of their common right and liberties. PEERAGES IN SUSPENSE. LONDON, November 20. In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith said the question of the Dukes of Albany and Cumberland's peerages would be reserved for consideration after the war [The Duke of Cumberland was recently found wandering in a dement-