GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 96, 18 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

KAISER TAKES THE FIM&'.. TO REPEL THE CZAR. ' London, September Iff.It is reported that the Kaiser is go'--ing to lead the armies concentrating against the cataclysm Russia is preparing. CORDIAL HATRED OF JOHN BULL. London, September 16. The British prisoners in Germany arc : singled out for excessive humiliations. ! They are prodded with bayonets for the I amusement of the jeering crovvdß. KINDNESS KINDLES DISGUST. MILITARISM RUN MAD. Copennagen, September 16. Newspapers in Berlin publish a number of letters from the field complaining bitterly of the reports that German women and girls received French and sian prisoners with kindness and even gave them small presents of food and tobacco. One German writes: "In the name of my comrades, who are shedding their blood for these unnatural women, I express the deepest regret. We are all filled with disgust at such behaviour. Women like these ought to be put in front of the troops, that they might feel in their own bodies what our lot is."

COOLING DOWN. Received 17, 5 p.m. London, September 10. A modified tone is apparent in the Berlin official statements. To-day's bulletin admits that in some portions of the wide battlefield tlie Germans have been partially successful.

WOUNDED PRINCE'S FERVENT [ OUTBURST. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 17, 0 p.m. London, September 16. Tlie Kaiserin welcomed Prince Joachim at Berlin. The Prince exclaimed, "God allowed me to bo wounded. Bless Him! lam proud of the day I fell!" He added: "The Germans subdued their fire at Wcordc, inducing the Belgians to advance. Then hell broke loose. The whole German front spat a continuous stream of lead. The deadly fire of the big guns wiped out the head of the Belgian column as sponges wipe a slate."

DISILLUSIONED. \ Received 17, 8.50 p.m. Amsterdam, September 18. The Berlin Tageblatt remarks that the depths of Boer gratitude for Germany's sympathy during the- South African war is evidenced by Premier Botha's statement that the Boers • are • solid with England against Germany. CIVIC RETALIATION. Received 17, 8.50 p.m. Amsterdam, September 16. The German Ministry of Education has dismissed all alien and enemy teachers and professors from the schools, and excluded children of aliens and enemies from tuition.

WHAT GERMANY HOPES TO GET., Received 17, 8.50 p.m. (Paris, Ser'ember 18. Germany's indemnities ? aimed from occupied towns in Belgi'i'i and France aggregate nearly millions sterling.