DEVILISH DEVICES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 202, 4 May 1915, Page 5

DEVILISH DEVICES.

PRACTICED BY GERMANS. ' The Prime Minister has received I the following from the High Commis- | sioneT, under date London, May 3rd, 11.30 a.m. According to Paris reports, in several parts of the front the enemy used, without effect, on Sunday, devices including glass tubes, which, .on breaking, emitted ether, bombs charged with inflammable material, gas giving off green smoke, which wreathed the enemy's lines, but did not reach the Allies. GERMANY'S NiEW ARMIES. DERNBERG BELITTLED. WAS IT A FEELER? (Reed. 2.5 p.xn.) AMSTERDAM, May 2. The Berliner Tagelbatt announces that the summoning of the Landstrum begins on Monday with the 1879 class, and ends on the 12th with the 1876 class. A further summons will be made in June of tlhe 4th 1875 class, ending on the 16th with the 1870 class. German conservative newspapers condemn Derburgh’s speech at the University Club, Brooklyn, in which he stated that Germany would voluntarily evacuate Belgium and France on condition that freedom of thd seas was guaranteed, and freedom for Germany to expand beyond her European frontiers. The “Post” declares the speech supplies a final proof of Demburgh’s incapacity. The “Vorwaerts” asserts that Dernburgh said nothing that was not justified by Hollweg's speech at t|i© beginning of war, that Germany wished to wage only a defensive war. THE CUT AND RUN. GERMAN DESTROYERS ACTIVE. AMERICAN BOYCOTT PROPOSAL /NEWSPAPER’S NAIYITADMISSION p, . ■ (Rec? 8.55 a.m.,) - W\ ! AMSTERDAM, May s'. Pridt tQ.,•Saturday’s engagement,.German dost£oybrs stopped Ahe Norwegian steamer Yarild end examined her papers ; .hbc to proceed. Presently, three British trawlers appeared, one of which was rammed the destroyers, but wt sink. Fire of . the destroyers crew jumped into the sea, but were, picked upi Then British destroyers and ttre Germans fled, There is a movement afoot in. Germany to boycott .goods In t&, taliation for providing the Allies with ammunition. InyCommercial circles, in Hamburg especially, Herr Ballin’s followers are opposing the movement as foolish and ruinous. The .Hamburger Nachrichton states: We must be careful, for we will need Americans help after the wac; V . ANOTHER WINTER CAMPAIGN- - • • ■ B^# GERMANY STILL HOPEFUL. A FINAL TRUMP CARD, v (Eee. 9.5 a.m) . ~ • LONDON, May 3. The Daily Mail’s - Bucharest corre- * epondOnt says that Germany ijs .-.prepar* ■ihg^for another • \campeiga/ Von Tirpifz hopes /that the constant British speed; of capital‘ ; iships>,that ,thd German ships will be ,enabled to a grand sortie as a final' trump" v faTd.