GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 105, 26 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

THE FEELING IN BERLIN. PREPARING TO "SQUASH" ENGLAND. LONG WAR EXPECTED. Received 20, 8.10 p.m. London, September 21. A prominent American who has lived for many years in Berlin was interviewed in London. He said the Germans are working night and day at Kiel and \Yilhclmshaven, altering merchantmen into transports, and are also working unceasingly on Zeppelins. They expect to squash England to pieces. It is believed in Berlin that the war will endure for several years. The population kHow little of its progress. The British are hated "with an intensity hard to describe. It was never supposed that England would .he a factor in the fight.

A "SUFFOCATION" POLICY. PREPARING FOR INVASION OF ENGLAND. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 24. The Times, in a leader, says: "Onr allies and enemies are suffering infinitely more economically than ourselves, but the alow inexorable pressure produced by the suppression of her sea traffic must suffocate Germany. "It is reported that the Germans are building Zeppelins with feverish haste. The?e, with the mysterious big guns, greater than anything yet constructed, will be used against England. The cutting of the cables, which has isolated Germany, is particularly resented."

MOTOR TRANSPORT FUEL INTERCEPTED. AWKWARD FOR THE KAISER. Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received 20, 6.25 p.m. Londoß, September 24. The Russian capture of the Galician oilfields is embarrassing the Germans. Motor traction is essential to the mobility of the German forces, oiving to the enormous wastage of horses. ■DISMISSED: Received 25, 8 p.m. London, September 24. The Chronicle's Geneva correspondent states that General von Diemllng, commanding the army is Alsace, has been dismissed.