GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 97, 19 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

| SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES. / PREPARING FOR INVASION. TTBgTERJT FORTRESSES STRENGTHENED. Received 19, 12.55 a.m. Amsterdam, September IT. It is reported that Cologne, Dusselforf, Wesel and Duisburg are strengthening their fortifications and preparing defences. [Cologne, on the Rhine, one of the ekief fortresses in the German Empire; WeaeL a fortress at the confluence of Daisbcrg are noted educational centres, also in the Rhineland, unfortified; eastward of the Belgian frontier.]

PBESH TROOPS FOR FRANCE. REINFORCEMENTS TRAVERSE BELGIUM. Received 19, 12.55 a.m. Amsterdam, September 17. Ifaay German regiments have traversed Liege, going towards France. BERLIN DEPRESSED. BAD NEWS FROM THE FRONT. CQHCBALMENT NO LONGER POSSIBLE. Tunes and Sydney Sun Services. Rome, September 17. Report* state that the German public opinion is deeply impressed with the aew* of the defeat. Crowds outside the newspaper offices in Berlin are awaiting tidings. The crowds are of such size tfaat disorders are feared. The Berlin Bureau is issuing bulletins ofcviouily concocted to prepare the people for bad news, declaring: "We did not expect e> promenade for our troops." A special train of great length entereft Berlin filled with dead Germans piled from the floors to Ihe ceilings like frozen \ prodaee. Many passengers on the platform fainted at the sight.

ACUTE DISTRESS REPORTED. Bordeaux, September 17. iwiss merchants from Munich report ftC«te distress in South Germany. GERMANY KEPT BUSY. TROOPS RETURNED TO FRANCE. Petrograd, September 17. It it reported that the Germans are sanding back their first line of troops from East Prussia to France. Apparently the reason for the first transfer wai the stampeding of practically half •f the population in North-east Prussia i before General Rennenkampff, causing a I paaiq i» Berlin.