A GERMAN PERIL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 125, 27 May 1916, Page 5

A GERMAN PERIL.

IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. According to a private letter received in Napier this week trouble is expected any day in South Australia, where there is a German settlement named Handorf. The letter, which speaks for itself, is as follows: We ara .having very troublesome times here just now with the Germans, and you need not be at all surprised to hear at any time that war has broken cut in Australia.

No more troops are to leave for some time to come ,and all bridges, rivers, pest offices, and telephone exchanges throughout the country are under guard.

T.'ie men are not allowed to use the telephone in camp and all their letters are censored. We have a soldier's wife staying with us while her husband is in camp, and he did not come home for his usual leave last week, and he was not allowed to send us a

message. Last Wednesday night they had six snecial train s waiting outside the Mitcham camp to take men to the German settlement at Handorf if the word came.

There are seven hundred soldiers j at the place permanently, but trouble is expected at any moment, and the men ar e warned to be ready. They sleep with their uniforms on and loaded rifles at their heads, and 150 rounds of ammunition had been issued to each man. All the rifle clubs have had word that they must be prepared *o receive the call at any tine and they are to fake any means possible re reach VTit.cham camp as quicfc'y a" possible should the r:]f--ri be nvn. >'l tnt'ls pvo ♦ - '•<■-> »-; whistles blown r.v] a !'••.• li-frt is to warning. Perhaps th:"--"c-" win 'a-" ecm? to a ho-,f] Germans, P p-\ tliey soetn to own the be.-it property.