GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 78, 21 August 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

_ COLONIALS STILL UNTRACED. TALES OF THE TROOPS' lIAKD-s SHIPS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Keceived 20, 5.50 p.m. London, August 19. A considerable number of Australians and New Zealanders remain untraced on the Continent. The High Commissioners are making urgent enquiries. Scores of colonials arriving at Paris from the war zone report that hundreds of Britishers expelled from Berlin were taken to the border and then ordered back to Hanover and placed in a compound. After burning Vise, tire German deso-. lated the country for a radius of many miles, bayonetting cattle and pigs, and, razing the homes of the villagers, who lied to 'Belgium. An officer, was court-martialled at Louvain and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for forbidding troops to fire at a critical moment, at Liege, when an important position might have been saved. German prisoners arc found to !*e cawing beetroot and carrots in theii knapsacks. They stated that these had been their only food for several days. GERMAN WHITE BOOK. "SERVIA WAS RUSSIA'S TOOL." AN IMPORTANT OMISSION. Received 21, 12.20 p.m. • London. August 20 (morning). A German White Book presented to the Reichstag develops the theory that j Servia was Russia's tool in a conspiracy against Austria. Austria was bound to defend herself. Germany was fully conscious that the warlike procedure by 'Austria against Servia might bring Russia upon the scene, but the .moment that Russia protested against the Austrian Note to Servia, she boldly asserted that Russia had no concern with the quarrel. t The White Book is entirely silent respecting Sir Edward Grey's warning as to Ga-eat Britain's attitude. GARRISONED BY BOYS. NO ABLE-BODIED MEN 1N T BERLIN'. WOMEN CALLED TO ARMS. Received 2il, 1.25 a.m. London, August 20. The Times' Rotterdam correspondent states that a party of Chinese medical men, refugees from Berlin, report that the city is in the hands of old men and boys. There is.a complete absence of able-bodied men. Boys aged fourteen guard the bridges with fixed bayonets, and a corps of amazons is being -raised* leaflets having been distributed calling ilie women to arms.