GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 30 August 1917, Page 5

GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

GERMANY’S LOST COLONIES. MUST BE RETAINED. .s> 'AT FUTURE PEACE CONFERENCE. Received 8.40.' AMSTERDAM, August 29. Herr Ballin, the well-known German shipping magnate, publishes important articles in the Hamburger Fremdeblata, insisting on the absolute necessity of recovering the colonies intact, also of rounding off those in Africa and considerably increasing those in the Pacific. Herr BaJlin points out the “ Mittel. Europa ” scheme is inadequate to provide the raw. materials vital to Germany’s industries." Coun- ' tries producing cotton, coffee, jute, rubber, and other products must, be under German control, otherwise the Empire will be under the heel of England and the United States. Admiral von CapelleN also insists on the' necessity of tropical possessions and security of positions in Belgian Congo. During the peace negotiations German delegates must continually ask whether the colonies oan supply the necessary raw materials, and are thickly populated enough to supply German planters and .exploiters, with the necessary labour, coasts, and islands. Eastern Asia is particularly valuable. TO BRING GERMAN WAR LORDS ... TO REASON. Received 10.50. BERNE, Allgust 29. German republican circles in Switzerland urge the Entente to threaten Germany wdth a commercial boycott for five, ten, or twenty years after the war. Some'are convinced that the Entente mean business. ARRESTED FOR .ESPIONAGE. Received lO.ffO. AMSTERDAM, August 29. The Germans have arrested Madam Errera, wife of the Director of Dublin University, for espionage and forging identity Cards. .. GERMANY'S PEACE OFFER REJECTED. Received 10.50. AMSTERDAM, August 29. The Vorwaerts quotes Kerensky as saying that Russia a few days ago rejected Germany’s fresh offer of peace and asks for a prompt explanation. The Reichstag resolution is marred by secret peace the refusal whereof is a moral defeat for Germany. GEEKCE. GREECE COMES IN. AGAINST THE CENTRAL POWERS, MELBOURNE, August 29. The Governor-General has received advice that Greece is at war with Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey. ATHENS, August 28. Vcnizelos after an eight hours’ speech in the Chamber was accorded an ovation. The Chamber unanimously voted confidence in the Government. MORE HUN FIENDISHNESS. Received 8.400. LONDON, August 29. Several additional instances arc reported of Gormans intentionally shelling hosiptals at the front, and casualty stations. A Melbourne doctor states: “I was attending to our boys when the Huns deliberately shelled our station. Twenty shell's dropped in one camp within four hours. One fell yesterday between two wards which we had only emptied, four minutes earlier.”