GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 17 August 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

AT WAR WITH ALL THE i COLONIES. , Received 10, p.m.. tonlon. August 15. Thf 1)?.i1.7 <ltronicle's Copenhagen cor-vi'-ponn''«t reports that the Foreign Of-ik-o at Berlin informed commercial circles At Hamburg that Germany was at war with all the British colonics. | '•nrriDßD, wf. fall." RfrF.RXAi. STRIFK IN" GERMANY. SOCIALISTS ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATIONS. SHOOTING DOWN THE LEADERS. London, August 14. Gorman newspapers a week ago have icantf references to the Russian campaign, while th<* British declaration of war is concealed. Tho Berliner Taseblatt. discussing Britain'* attitude, considered it doubtful whether Britain could land an army on the Continent, and declared that tliff importance of such an expedition would bo slight. The Daily Citizen san s that a German refugee, who escaped via Denmark, states that Dr. Licbtaiecht. the Socialist leader, was shot in Berlin, which is practically in a state of revolution owing to the shortage of food. Dr Lie-bnecht refused to serve as a reserve officer. He was arrested, oourt-.martialled and shot hv a platoon of infantry. It its stated that Rose, a Luxemburg Socialist writer, was aKo shot for declaring that tfic soldiers were being maltreated. The military are breaking up anti-war meeting-, and firing on demonstrators. OOMMERCE RUINED. TOURISTS TAKEN" PRISONERS. London, August 14. German commerce has been swept from the msis. and German traders and manufacturers are absolutely at a standstill. A Rhine steamer carrying British and American tourists near Cologne was searched. Fifty men were separated from their wives and held as hostages without explanaton. but supposedly in retaliation for England detaininf German resorvists. JAPANESE STEAMER FIRED OX. Timci and Sydney Sun Services. Received 16, '5.16 p.m. Hongkong, August 15. Ties Japanese steamer Shiko Maru attempted to enter the port, disregarding the harhor regulations. Two sliots were vnt across her bows, and the vessel (.til! persisting, a third shot was fired, scriu'i'-iy damaging the steamer amidships. Tile Government tug went to :HT jikt. GERMANS DESERTING. ANTMVAR CAMPAIGN. ALLEGATIONS FROM A FRENCH .SOURCE. ' and Sydney Snr. Services. I -Received lli. ,j.l."> p.m. Paris. August. 1.1. I', i-. .i!:-'ged at Boulogne th.it. German ofti' el., I'M men arc deserting on account o! Kt i.ition. In «.om» cases it lias been fou-j! necessary to ord'-v the troops baci; t> e'i- towns •,> the noting can. : the socialistic anti-war agitation. V:;K i R;i\VN PRINCE. pi .:-; ■: i ::nt rumors ok wounds. !!■■< eivod lli. p.m. , i/iMtl'in. August. 15 (morning). !»'r»i»tently rumored at Liege tn.it t■ • •- re.vn Prince was wounded, leading :,J the death of the head of the Uu-Kutr*. Men-,'an English stockbroker, who Via.t.Nl !u» home at Lirge on Manilav, st.it '-. t't.i.?, forty thousand Germans are ;Ocv-ing tile town. The bulk have ii,l at Mont St. .Martin. The Wule-. n.-!, are lined with Maxims. He lejr;i '.i the I),* Pontisse forts had tv.v'ir./ r : destroyed IV; German JANHER 1\ THE SKV. " lIIXG FOR AIRMEN. . _ Berlin. AnguM. 14. * A-if.i.'ii). Cologne an dotlier large f tv.-> t : ■ . iii!n ; ii towers are filial ivi'th , n - to watr'li for aeronlanci*, "8 !? |H»int skvwaril with the sf i. , ' ' ' ' "'eniii'.' Cologne is plniifcd in m,i the >ky illuminated With "'■'"/H* '*• IVilr "f French armie» j!" t"» populace with nervous tiKN'KRAIj SUICIDES. 'V': i!.;.ix<; a i'ropjiE( v. r.v-nived Ifi. o.r, p.m. London. August. 14. _ ' '•»■> rumored for several ,I HV , Enimii-h -,v,i- killed. ! confirms this. rind adds 1 ' ' ;, i l.ajwiz -,nr(-;>e,ls ]i»;r, • -,ived 17. li'..T a.m. ~ I.oiimoii. Allgll-1. 1.1. "i' K:mnWi comW..t» {., wile "' v ' v.-unld he his touili nr.! to 'iii- !,r his ■• ' ;! - .:.-r» <-<.i,iiiii!te.l snicid" along "• KAISER'S THANKS. . "lALL MERCIES. "' ''■ i', ei| 17, I-J..-; .. J,, lAugn-: 1". - in •> i„ the Per'':d"r ur Mii!>i,is.. n . k-iiii; ! I w.i.s will 1 " ' vo'i an■! v.r.iv galhin' ' . • " T' ; i- Hr-f vi'lorv." : :'d>-E\iP.|.rv'-' KAiSF.II. " : .'Avj> ;,in:. '..'■;\e ( ] 17. 1 .M! f ) T.orK i::. .A-ivilll . "'I ','. rO-Ve-lUlluleill for 111 ' ; .! '"V =ir- C'e r.lM'nr lill . . ..-v-s f-irs- f!|.. .1,1 ' s' u '-i -" rfers :ir v - isleii. The (vain lia- six ,1 \v' f.i- <vl'i r< nnil .1 niotoi •>>. ' I-. w'w.lc being guarded by ai v -'Tsl i -aii's. r. niiyr lis.;: a small {"nt. wlie a ;•••• life is deemed expedient.