GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 18 August 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

SHORT OF HORSES. GERMANY CAN OBTAIN NO MORE. Received 17. 8.13 'p.m. i London, August Hi. | The Press Bureau states that the < Hermans are greatly inconvenienced by > • the scarcity of horses, thousands having i ben killed or captured by tue Belgians, < and Germany cannot obtain more. [Received 18, 12.10 a.m. i Paris, August 17. The French) have captured many lurn- i dreds of Uhlan horses. BERLIN BY NIGHT. IN DARKNESS AND GLOOM. POPULACE LEARNS SURPRISING TRUTHS: Reci-ived 17, I'O.oO p.m. Copenhagen, August 1(1. A travellers from Berlin slates tliat the Scandinavian mails, giving detailed reports of German defeats in Belgium, created a great surprise. Berlin, August 17. Night revels 'Lave ceased. Tlie dancing halls are closed, and the city is in ah; solute darkness. Lcipsic has been transformed into a hospital town for the reception of the Liege wounded. KAISER LEAVES BELGIUM. MAKES FOR STIiONGLY-FORTIFIEI) TOWN. Received IS. 12.40 a.m. Berne. August 17 (morning), 'there are reports that the Kniscr and the headquarters staff have left. Berlin for Main;-, (or Mayencc). an Imperial fortress of the first rank, in Ihe grandduchy of Hesse, on the left bunk of the, Rhine. FURTHER. INDIGNITIES""*^PERPET/RATED BY GERMANY. CONSULS IMPRISONED. Received IS, 12.10 a.m. London, August Kb The Freneli Embassy states tliat. the British. French and Russian Consuls -.it Danzig were treated with great ind'gnity. They were pereinntorilv order' d to leave on Aiicnst ',. When'the train reached Konthoin three daVs later, the Consuls were separated from their families. Tile women were sent to a mean tavern, and the Consuls were imprisoned in a tiuv cellar. Sir F. Drunimond Hay was released on the .Kith, but the Russian and French Consul-; are still retained. BRITISH SUBJECTS DETAINED. I London. Anscst 10. Clermany lias furnished Sir E, (>ov » with the names of scores of- British subjocts and tourists eompulsorily detained * on. the ground t'hat they are of such age as to be serviceable for wot.

FAIRY STORIES FOE, GERMAN BARS. London, August 16. German wireless messages declars that, the BritisW fleet has not dared approach the German const since the sinking of the Amphion, nor vc'iiii Britain Bend nn expeditionary forte, foi fear of submarine*. A PAPER SUPPRESSED. Cairo, Augii6t 10. The German newspaper Acgyptist);'? Nachrichten litis 'been suppressed for publishing sensational news of alleged German victories, also <v statement thn the Czar had fled to Moscow.