GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 71, 13 August 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

THE GERMAN TROOPS. LOCATION OF THE MAIN FORCE. v AUSTRIANS IN ALSACE. Received 12, 8.30 p.m. London, August 12. The Press Bureau states that there, is good reason to believe that the mass of Germans is distributed between Thionville and Liege, while Lorraine is held comparatively lightly. There is every indication that the Austrian* have entered Alsaee. •It is believed that the forts at Liege have not been taken.

THE KAISER'S DREAM. , AT PARIS IN A WEEK. GERMANS GULLED BY FAKED NEWS Received 12. S.Hj p.m. Pars, August 12. M. Netcu, French Consul-General at Dusseldorf, wbo was at Cologne on Friday, .states that the German people there are being informed that Liege was token at the point of the bayonet, that Brussels was in flames, Antwerp blown up, and that the Kaiser at the head of the army expects to reach Paris in a week. FRENCH NEWS RESTRICTIONS. BARE CASUALTIES STATED. Received Pi, 8.3 sp.m. Paris, August 12. The Government has forbidden the publication of the numbers of casualties or the names of the killed and wounded. The Government lias opened a bureau, where the relatives are merely told whether a soldier has been killed or wounded, without giidng the place or the day when lie fell. A FATAL ERROR. GERMAN DIPLOMATS' FAILING. "SEE PICTURES INSTEAD OF REALITIES." Received 12, i : .5 p.m. London. August 12. Tlie Times, in a leader, says that German statecraft suffers from the fatal error of seeing pictures instead of realities. It sees nothing which is not fair to see, and shuts its eves to the most ii portant of realities, the, national feeling of other peoples. RIOTS IN BERLIN. CAUSED BY HI:.I[ PRICES. A TERRIBLE MAN-HUNT. Received 13. I a.m. Copenhagen. August 12. Travellers from Berlin report .that serious riots occur dailv. owina to the rise of the price of food! Manv tradesmen and dealers have been arrested, and the police closed many shops. Paper money is everywhere rejected, i The Official Press Agency announces , that private people are entitled to arS ' yrest suspicious characters, and terrible 1 man-hunts result.