GERMANY
'■FIGHTING IN SELF-DEFENCE."
THE POPULAR GERMAN IDEA. WAR LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED.
LAND DEFEAT IMPOSSIBLE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 22, 6.40 p.m. London, September 22. An Englishman who has returned from Germany says that Berlin persists in the statement that Germany is at war purely in self-defence against the "wicked and ambitious entente," who are anxious to crush their strongest rival. Educated Germans confidently expect a land victory, but are prepared for naval defeat. They assert the impossibility of famine occurring in Germany, owing to the crops being extraordinarily good. Germany claims that the war bonds for 50 millions have been over-subscribed, and the subscriptions to an unlimited loan have reached 63 millions.
RUSSIAN GENERAL COURTMARTIAL LED.
Received 23, 1.3 oa.m. j London, September 21. German newspapers announce that the Russian General Martos was taken at Chain Halle and court-martiallcd for burning German villages and shooting the inhabitants.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 102, 23 September 1914, Page 5
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