GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 4 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

REINFORCEMENTS AGAINST RUSSIA' SECOND TIME DOES DUTY IN j BELGIUM. ! Received -1, 1.40 a.m. '••iOstend, September 3. • Reserves jn blue uniforms are being brought from Germany to relieve the first line of troops, which, it is believed, arc being conveyed to Germany to stem, the Russian advance. ENORMOUS AERIAL ARM. Received 4, 1.40 a.m. London, September 3.

American engineers who were recently at Berlin visited the flying station. They saw 50 Zeppelins ready to start, and hundreds of aeroplanes also ready. THE LEIPZIG FIRE. ' ' '' Received 4, 1.40 a.m. London, September 3. It is now stated that thovigh the pavilions at the Leipzig Books Exhibition were burnt, the British Commissioner had removed the British loan collection prior to his hurried departure. REFUGEES CROWDING TO RERUN. ORTELSBURG DISTRICT IN FLAMES. London, September 2. IA telegram from Copenhagen reports that the roads are blocked with carts laden with refugees froni East Prussia. Two thousand five hundred jrrived via Berlin in two days. Refugees from Ortelsburg state that the wholes neighborhood is in flames, and that the residents were ordered to leave on Friday, because the Cossacks were only two days' march away. A HERMAN PRINCE KILLED. * ' Copenhagen, September 2, '

! German newspapers describe the Prince ul l.ippe's death at Liege. Tic Germans wore hemmed in and assailejl by torrents of bullets. Strong supports arriving, the Prints ordered the standard to be raised so that they might he recognised. Immediately there was a hail of Herman bullets, and the Princ i wns hit in the throat and chest and | died immediately. j I.V NOW. I Paris, September 2. | The Kaiser has visited the battlefield of Ofiarleroi and proceeded to Mons and Brussels. [A day or two ago, the Kaiser was reported to have gone- along to see how the Russians were progressing. Either the cable man is romancing or tHo Kaiser travels extremely rap'ialy;)