GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 106, 28 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

TEUTONS MISLED BY REPORTS, BRITISH BOYCOTT INSTITUTED. FURTHER REINFORCEMENTS FOR FRANCE. London, September 20. A German officer, who was captured 20 miles from Paris, has arrived in England. He said the Germans must be in Paris by now. When toid that they had been driven back 00 miles, he cried ."Impossible!" Officers and men are schooled to believe in the invincibility of the German armies and, and declare that the final defeat of their country is impossible. All are deluded by stories of the success of the Germans on sea and land.

. The C»l"gne Gazette on Wednesday published tile thirtieth list of German losses. It occupied six columns. Amsterdam, September 25.

Dr. Frcund, in an article in the Vossielie Zeitung, states that after the war no German patriot would buy British products. He added that a powerful organisation is projected to exclude England from the German sugar market. Two hundred thousand German reinforcements for France have traversed Belgium during the last few days. (Cables from Amsterdam are of German origin.) Paris, September 25. An interpreter at Rheims states that Prince August Wilhelm demanded four million sterling if two missing envoys who were sent with a flag of truce to discuss terms of occupation were not found. The envoys have not been traced. Antwerp, September 25. Dr. Liebknccht, the German Socialist leader, in an interwow after a tour of Belgium, declared that he will inform his compatriots that the conditions in Belgian towns are a disgrace to Germany.

(Dr. Liebknccht was reported early in the war to have been shot.)

HOW THE WAR .LOAN WAS RAISED. THE WAYS OF HIGHWAYMEN. , Received 27, 5.15 p.m New York, September 26. German despatches show that the success of the war loan was due to the Government attaching 25 per cent, of all bank balances and thus forcing depositors to subscribe. German merchants were also forced to liquidate debts by investment in the war loan, and creditors were-notified that if they did not agree, their firms must continue business.

They even notified creditors in Switzerland that money owing to them had. been invested in the war loan.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAR. A CONCOCTED STORY. Received 27, 10 p.m. Rome, September 20. A concocted British Labor Party manifesto is published in the Vorwacrts, and is being widely circulated in Italy. The manifesto says that Sir Edward Grey is chiefly responsible for the war.