ROUMANIA MOBILISING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 152, 2 March 1915, Page 5

ROUMANIA MOBILISING.

DEFINITE DATE FIXED. (Reed. 8.50 a.m.) BUCHAREST, March 1. Newspapers announce that mobilisation on the thirteenth of ten classes. Reserve cadets of th,e first class have been appointed non-commissioned officers of the various corps. DAILY BREAD LIMITED. AN AUSTRIAN DECREE. (Reed. 8.50 a.m.) ROME, March 1. A c'iscrco has been issued in Vienna makl’ng IJ’.ie diail?/! consumption per head ten ounces of corn and seven ounces of flour. REMARKABLE ADMISSIONS. EXPERIENCE CHANGES GERMAN OPINION. (Reed. 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 1. The Rheinish Wpet Falische Zeitung admits Germany’s 'extraordinary under estimate of British military power, and adds that British hirelings had borne themselves magnificently. Germans had hitherto been unable to attack England’s so-cal’jßd badly-manned fleet. Englishmen posses many of the Germans’ best virtues, and all the colonies would ultimately fall to him who secures control of the sea.

GERMAN TAXES INCREASE. 1 (Reed. 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 1. Berlin’s municipal tax|ss have been increased by 125 per cent. An official Berlin message states that finishers receiving permits to leave Germany are only allowed to leave on the sixth of each month. GOEBEN NOT WHAT SHE WAS. CONSTANTINOPLE SHORT OF COAL. LONDON, March 1. ■ A resident of Constantinople states that owing to bad coal, thp Goeben-s speed has been deduced to sixteen knots. The two after gunS are out of .action and the rudder out of gear. Th,ere are only two months’ supply of coal in the city, on thje failing of which there will be no electric light or trams. ' * - - ,