LATE WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 187, 17 April 1915, Page 8

LATE WAR NEWS.

KRON PRINCE PRISONERS,

HIS OBJECT IN LIFE. MUST KIEL A GERMAN. LONDON, April 15. The British - prisoners on. the Kron Prinz, who have been released., unanimously declare that they are returning to England .to enlist. Captain Creighton, .of the- sunken .ship Calehy, said ■for weeks they had. been forced to live jat the bottom of a dirty pirate ship, | wondering-.day and night-when they 'would be killed like rat s in a trap. jHe said:i,‘‘lmmediately I;.set foot in jEngland I will go and enlist in the one hope that I shall be able to put a- bit of lead through a German;” While the Kron Prion was well supplied the prisoners were fed on rice, bully beef and sour bread, and were shut up in a dark room at six nightly. The vessel was faster than most British warships, one of which chased her to within the three mil e hone One of the devices employed was to frequently throw over woodwork, -bearing the name of the steamer in ordisr to mislead British warships and make them think that she had been sunk, —Sydney Sun cable. 1 BERNHARDTS GUSH. GERMANY .INNOCENT OF GUILE. LONDON, April 15, Th e New York World’s correspondent, who interviewed the- Pope, has Snow interviewed General Bernhardi, the German war writer. Hq said nothing could be more absurd than the statement that our victory ■ would be a foture danger to the United States in South America. If America has reason to expect a clash with any European Power that Power is England. The danger lies in England’s marine militantism and absolute dominion of tire seas. He emphatically denied that Germany entertains any idea of world conquest Japan’s demands upon China h e alleged are a serious blow to American interests in China. Bernhardi does not believe that this will be the last great war, but wars will become less frequent. Hr does not consider that a war between the yellow and white races is near.