GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 8 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

TIIE POSITION OP ENGLISHMEN" IN

HAMBURG. POPULACE KNOW LITTLE OF THE WAR.

By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright

Lndou, September 6.

An Australian, who has reached London from Hamburg, via Amsterdam, estimates that there are a thousand British in Hamburg, not counting the crews of forty or fifty ships. The British have full liberty, and are treated as ordinary 'inhabitants by the shopkeepers if they have money, but none are allowed to be in employment. Many are glad to receive one or two marks daily from the relief funds. Hamburg is a cosmopolitan city, and there is more latitude therj ' than elsewhere. The feeling against the British is very bitter, but the Germans are anxious not to offend the Americans, so the British escape detection. There is complete ignorance in Hamburg regarding the war, and no casualty lists have been published.

THE VADUE OP NUMBERS.

Rotterdam, September 3.

A wounded German officer states that the German success is entirely due to the troops, which are never in action day after day. The army corps works in relays, the men taking several days' rest before going into the firing line. The Cologne Gazette states that on the first nineteen days of mobilisation twenty-six trains went west carrying two million troops across live thousand Rhine bridges.

APPEAL TO THE POLES,

Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, .September C.

German aeroplanes are showering pamphlets in Poland inciting the Poles to rise against the hated Russians, adding: "Away with Oriental barbarism." The Poles having experienced German culture repudiato community with savagery.

TICKLING THE GERMAN PALATE,

Received 7, 9.50 p.m. London, September 7.

Travellers report that one butcher is doing a thriving businc in Hamburg because his floor is cover'.! with British flags, enabling his oust..mors to tread on the Union Jack.

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES.

Received 7, D.liO p.m. Copenhagen, Sept. 7. Lists of the losses of the 10th and 17th Regiments of the German army show that various Prussian Guard regiments, and also the 4th IVivarian Cavalry Brigade, lost nearly all their officers and men.