GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 2 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

\ OPTIMISTIC [PREDICTION,

j GERMANY TAKES PARIS TO-DAY. Times-Sydney Sun Special Services. Received I'', 5.40 p.m. London, September 1. The German Press confidently asserts that the official prediction that the Germans will be in Paris by September 2nd will be fulfilled.

GERMANS SENT EASTWARD.

EN ROUTE FOR POLAND.

j Times-Sydney Sun Special Services. Received 1, 5.40 p.m. London, September 1. An Englishman from Brussels states that 80,000 Germans crossed the Meuse at Seilles, *fen route for Poland. [SiiML"" H .jaram AN AMBASSADOR'S STATEMENT.

ALLIES THOROUGHLY BEATEN.

Received 2, 12.20 a.m. Washington, September 1,

Count Bernstorff, th 0 German Ambsi.ssador in America, has issued a statement that Germany has beaten hotli France and Britain so thoroughly that Germany is able to withdraw troops to participate against Russians on the Eastern frontier. i

Count Bernstorff asserts that the Louvain people cut the throats of German officers, hence the instruction of the city.

CASUALTIES TOO ALARMING,

TIIEIR (PUBLICATION FORBIDDEN,

Received. 1, 11.55 p.m. Berlin, September 1. The Wav Office has forbidden the publication of further casualty lists.

ATROCITIES DENIED. Received 1, 11.55 p.m. Berlin, September 1, General von Moltke denies that the troops committed atrocities, and adds that where hard measures had been taken these had been provoked by the participation of the civil population, including women. BIG SIEGE GUNS.

Times-Sydney Sun Special Services. Received 1, 5.40 p.m. London, September 1. Germany's Krupp siege guns, which were constructed secretly, are 17in Howitzers. . , ,