GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 76, 19 August 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

KAISER AS EDITOR. CONDUCTS THE NEWSPAPER WAR COLUMNS. BERLIN ISOLATED FROM THE WORLD. Times and Sydney -Sun Services. Received 'ls, 5.10 p.m. London, August 18. It is stated that the Kaiser is periSonally dictating the war news and articles in the Berlin newspapers, which have, tardily admitted that there was no truth in the former assertion that the Liege forts were taken. The people of Berlin are isolated from the world. No mails have been received for a fortnight. I GERMANY'S DEFENCE FEVER. FURTHER RESERVES CALLED UP. Received 18, 5.10 p.m. Paris, August, 17. It is oflieially stated that the Germans are feverishly strengthening the Vistula- fortresses, especially at Graudenz and Thorn. Large reserves have been called up. FOOD FOR GERMANY. London, August 17. The Chronicle's Copenhagen correspondent states that the export of live cattle to Germany through! Jutland is so great that the route is insufficient and a railway ferry between Gjedsezd and Wardncmunde has been re-ppened, the import duty annulled, and quarantine not. enforced. CASUALTIES AT SEA. I •' ' London, August 17. . A Russian schooner pursued, eluded a German destroyer near Folster Island. The destroyer struck a German mine and foundered. HOPELESSLY' CONGESTED. GERMAN PLANS MISCARRY. i Received IS, 10.5 p.m. Paris, August lain Brussels it is believed that not only have itlie German plans 'been; hopelessly overthrown, hut as a consequence of the check aviators, report that a. laige num.' her of Gorman corns, coming up one liehind the other, as pre-arranged, are now 'becoming Hopelessly congested as thev ■pile up against the crippled front. AVENGING. SOLDTERS' DEATHS. GERMANS DESTROY A TOWN. Received 10, 12.10 a.m. j Berne, August 1-S. Germans burned the town of Baiveweiler. in Alsace, and blew up factories I alleging that the inhabitants 'had fired ■ and killed eight soldiers. INHUMAN OUTRAGE. .BRAZILIANS RESIDENTS BATTERED AND ROBBED. GERMANY ASKED FOR AN EXPLANATION. I Received 18, 10.5 p-an. Rio do Janiero, Augusl: IS. Brazil has instructed the Minister at Berlin to obtain explanation of the attack on Bernardiumi Campos, a former President of San Paulo, and his wife, whom German soldiers, after the outbreak of'war, brutally battered with the butts of rifles, robbed them of their jewellery, and cast them dying over the Swiss frontier. I Brazil demands the punishment of the soldiers.