GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 90, 11 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

GERMANY MOURNS AND Mj CRUMBLES. Jjfj KAISER HAGGARD AND WOBS *! ' ''M Received 11, 1.25 a.m. ( New York, September 10. ; Message?* from Germany state that all Germany is in deepest mourning. TJiq only news published consists of enori mous lists of casualties. A sentimenf abroad is that the great military st&S has been badly deceived. Indignation among the masses is growing daily, an<| j nothing but a titanic victory can restore public confidence and rehabilitate the, reputation of the Kaiser's military an<| political advisers. The country rccogi niaes that the Kaiser's invasion plan*, have been badly muddled, and that tho rapidity of the Russian advance and the efficiency of the British fleet'in destroy., ing German trade were ignored. ,' The newspapers were forbidden to mention the paralysis of German induai tries, or the successes of the Allies. > The Kaiser is described as looking worn and haggard with the great disappointment. Practical war tests show that the possibilities of the Zeppelins as a destructive force were greatly exaggerated by the clique which profited bj; their construction. Many Germans believed that the United States would seize Canada, and also that Japfcn would side with Germany. Received 1:1, I.M a.m. f? London, Sept. 10 (morning). Germany is suffering severely from a shortage of cotton. Therc'ig insufficient meat for military exigencies, and attempts are being made to purchase American and Egyptian through neutrals, i

MORE GERMAN TRICKERY. ' ' NIPPED IN THE BUD. i Received 10, 8.35 pan. London, September 10. The Chronicle's Milan correspondent reports that two German officers, ostensibly consul and secretary, arrived at Tripoli in August. Actually they were on a special mission to 'induce the leading Arabs to raise a revolt in Tunis and Algiers. . , GREAT ACTIVITY AT KRUPP& "/ ~ G UN-MAKING DAY AND NIGHT.. " IMPROVED ZEPPELINS READY. Amsterdam, September 9. A German American, interviewed, ; states that Krupps are working night and day at gun-making. Forty new ' Zeppelins are ready for service, embodying a new feature. The Germans claim to have guns able to bombard Dover from Calais.

THE GERMAN NEWS FACTORY. GREEK PRESS REFUSE THE STUFF. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 9. Baron von Clients has established himself in an imposing suite of rooms at a leading hotel in Athens. He is in possession of a bottomless purse'and daily distributes Germanised sews manufactured by Woolf's buicau, but tile Greek press reiusw to publish the matter. THE KAISER. SEES HIS DREAM DISPELLED. London, September 9. A Basle telegram states that the Kaiser, attended by a small staff, watched the battle on Monday from a hill i» the neighborhood of Nancy.. BIG WAR. LOANS. Amsterdam, September -fi. Berlin papers state that Germany will issue £50,000,000 worth of 5 per cent. Treasury bonds, with a currency of five yiars, and a further 5 per cent, loan at 97%, repayable in 1924.

TRANSFER OF TROOPS. Petrograd, September 9. It is estimated that th« Germans transferred to East Prussia numbered nearly 200,000. KEEPING THEIR PECKER UP. NO DISPIRITING TIDINGS IN BERLIN / London, September 9. Mr. Poutsma told the Daily Citizen that when he left Berlin on August 27 the- authorities were not allowing anything likely to dishearten the people. Notices were posted forbidding the r<oitives of those killed to wear mourning;. The mobilisation proclamations- ware printed in 1912 anß%,the alteration of date was made in blue pencil.-

MORE GERMAN ABUSES. [ Paris, Sept. 9. .' The Britishers endured great hardships during their xetireiment from the Belgian" frontier. They ran short <•! ', food and for five days subsisted on raw carrots, unripe fruit and other .field stuff. At one point a Guardsman sta H .«> j tint Germans with Red Cross badg'-s drove up in what seemed to be an amV:- , latwe van. It contained a machine pat with which they mowed dowa tie Britishers like grass.