General Cables.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 July 1918, Page 3

General Cables.

NEW ZEALAND CANNIBALS. GERMAN PRISONERS’ TERROR LONDON, July 29. Mr Phillip Gibbs 'writes: English, Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders are sharing in raids with a view of discovering enemy dispositions and damaging lines. We are taking numerous prisoners. We find that the Germans are being doped with stories of the brutal way in which the British treat prisoners. Even Germans of normal intelligence believe fantastic allegations. As an example, the New Zealanders brought prisoners from a raid. They were amazed at the terror of the Germans, which only disappeared when they were well fed and kindly treated, As is the invariable custom of the Germans, they then confessed that their officers said the New Zealanders were cannibals, who first offered cigarettes and then ate prisoners. The New Zealanders noticed that the Germans first refused cigarettes. The New Zealanders hugely enjoyed the joke at the expense of their reputation though they were staggered by the credulity of the German soldiers. BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC POLICY. GREAT ALARM IN GERMANY. . HAGUE, July 28. Britain’s economic policy is creating the greatest alarm in Germany, “Vorwaerts” declares that Colonial preference is one of the most important facts of the war, and will have a lasting political effect. England’s transition to protection is vital to Germany, and her -world empire, which has absorbed one-fifth of Germany’s exports, will be extraordinarily strengthened and consolidated. The danger has arisen that Germany will be pushed out of wealthy markets. Experiences of the war have convincingly and unfortunately surprised influential circles in Germany, especially the fact that Australian, New Zealand, and other overseas troops have advanced on every battlefield against the Germans. The consolidation of the British has given a smashing refutation of German annexationists’' contention.