GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 108, 30 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY.

SAMPLE LIES FROM BERLIN.

COLONIES WERE EXPECTED TO

REVOLT.

"WAR WANTONLY THRUST ON

GERMANY."

Received 2',), 10.55 p.m. London, September 2S. An Australian who recently returned from Berlin states that among the lies circulated is that Japan is assisting England on condition that the Japanese are • allowed free access to all her colonies. , The Germans are intensely annoyed with the Boers' loyalty. .' Every German counted upon upheavals in India and lAfrica, and expected I that Canada and Australia would break away from tho Empire. He was asked to distribute copies of I a pamphlet addressed to the evangelical churches abroad, signed by a. number of Berlii) persons. The pamphlet alleges that the war was wantonly thrust on Germmvy, hence destinations of race, rank, and parties had vanished in holy enthusiasm, looking to God. Germany was now prepared joyfully to stake all for land and liberty. Unnameable horrors, continued tho pamphlet, had been committed against Germans living peaceably abroad, and against women, children, the wounded, and physicians.

BRITISH AIRSHIP'S SUCCESSFUL RAID. DUSSELDORF ZEPPELIN SHEDS DAMAGED. Received 2!), C.lO p.m. Geneva, September 2!). Reports from Germans state that the airship raid on Dusseldorf resulted in the partial destruction of the sheds and serious injury to two Zeppelins. All the cathedral towns in the Rhine Valley arc now flying the white flag. ENORMOUS GERMAN CASUALTIES. THE LAST SEVEN LISTS. SOME LURID GERMANISED NEWS. Copenhagen, September 28. I The 33rd list of German casualties is as follows:—Officers, 71 killed, 132 wounded, 1 missing; men, 1032 killed; 4123 wounded, and 224G missing. 'The 34th list shows that 89 officers were killed, 315 wounded, and 9 are missing; the men losing 1328 killed, GO7O wounded, and 2110 missing. The casualties in the last seven lists total 47,500. Rome, September 28.

German newspapers state that Admiral Jellicoe will be tried for incapacity, owing to the loss of the three British cruisers. The newspapers also state that political circles ire demanding Mr Churchill's resignation. London newspapers are represented as confessing to having abandoned hope of retrieving the loss.

Times and Sydney Sun Services London, September 28.

The Kaiser's war talisman is a fourleaved clover, pressed and scented and tucked away in a pocket-book in an overcoat. Official bulletins issued in Berlin state that in 1870 the little daughter of a Court official presented the clover to King William, who kept it in a pocket-book until after the entry to Paris. He then returned it to the child, saying, "It has brought me luck." When the present war broke cut, tho owner presented the clover to the Emperor. 1 Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, .September 2S.

A Russian officer, in an interview, said: —"About 600,000 Russians are in East (Prussia. The Germans are as brave as us, and stick to it to the last. We have fixed a tariff for shooting from windows in towns. For the first shot we blow up a house, for a second shot in the same street, we blow up the street. The Germans are straining every nerve to defeat us. Everyone capable of holding a gun is pressed into the service. We know that by the dead on the battlefield, who include men in civilian attire, sailors from warships, children of 15 years old, men past the fighting age, and occasionally women,"