General Items

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 7 October 1914, Page 5

General Items

INCREASING FURY. J LETTERS OP GERMAN HUSONiJtfI, I CONFIRM BIG LOSSES. ALLIES WONT BE DENIKI. ' * (Delayed Cable). m m- Tj °ndon, Bcptemkei W, I lie Tunes comwpond«nt at uordumx says:— / "The great buttle is raging with increased fury. As the enemy n«li ß (»that the Allied forces aTe not to be denied, the vigor of its counter-attacks grow to a point of desperation. 'Everywhere alon» the front, except 'at Woevre, where tie armies art plodding along in ground with the utmost difficulty, the Allied farces arc throwing themselves upon the enemjyfa defensive positions, not with reckless gallantry which amounts to foolhardincss, but in accordance with tlio cool dictates of- a. plan worked out "by map and time-table. "The general aspect of affairs is favorable, and the optimism i» increased by the revelations in the correspondence of (prisoners of the faulty woAiic,of the enemy's transport arid victualline arrangement*. "Letters found furnish a ronariu&la tribute to the Ccrmans' powers'of endurance. For days together the soldiers existed on vegetables torn frdfc the fields and devoured raw. "One soldier asks: llow lon» is this misery to continue? We have only seen bread thrice since the war began.' "All the letters confirm to »h» full the cnemy's < heavy losses, and rckto how companies of 60 men lhave been reduced to 40. There is also comment on the uon-nrrivul of reinforcements," WILL TILEY RETUBN VIC- , .; TORIOUS? i This question i B asked by the representative of an American paper who wa« in Paris when the French troops wui& into battle, lie continues:— What will happen, no one knows. No one "vvUl know until the fourteen days of the mobilisation arc coniplet- ' ed, till the autobusesi comet back lroin the front, till tho old men of FrsintG come into Paris to take the places of the young men gone to tho annyi. Then things will settle down, or there will be a new order. All will bo arranged, for the war is being run liko a business'. And meanwhile it raine, rains, rains, rains. But of one thing every (man and every woman of France is certain. Wo shall not have to wait a rear for another "fourteenth of July" —for another more splendid, more glorious Independence Day! Tho whole civilised world is with us; our fight is the tight for humanit"! And when our victorious troops do return there will be a greater feast day than Paris ha.? ever seen —a, feast of youth and song, of love and kisse& Yes, I have seen kisscfl wanton and kisses of despair. What will Ithu IkSsees ba when the youth of Erance come marching back 'r«iin to restore the gaiety of Paris? May Ibe here to see! Vivo la France 1 WAR FEVER IN GERMAN Y. EXCITING 6GENES. EARLY PREPARATIONS. A passenger to Frwn»ntle bv the R.M.S. Moldavia, who was in M.i* . »;j the south of Germany, when Austria her declaration of war :ifciiinst Servia, said th<' scene which followed Ihe receipt of the news in Germany beggars description. The crowd in Munich, became wildly demonstrative, and the excitement was internee. Men .and women cheered themselw-i hoarse, and hats were thrown into the air; while oien embraced one another in, their enthusiasm. If ever war met with fh* approval of the people, Qie present otte did. "So far as I eould sec," he continued, "the people almost to a man TKtre ini favor of going to war. They never thought, however, that England would be against them. At the most they thought that Great Britain would adopt an attitude of benevolent neutrality towards France, and her active pnticipation in the tvouble was never i.vkoned upon. TheTc Is no doubt tlm* Germans had been preparing for t'nu var for some time, and two days befo.'e Austria had declared war Gorman troops were mobilising. I paw numerous trains leaving' Munich laden with soldiers. When I got to Berlin Germany had declared war n-Gjairr-t Russia; and all night long crowds Flinging_ ttto 'National Anthem para/led the rrlnd•pal streets. Thousands of rere hurriedly leaving the German rap-. Hal, and the scenes! at Me various raftway stations were almost mdnri'ibar.V.' The departing trains wire rushed by excited refugees and the platforms \\vt«. staekedi many feot h'crh with their lug- • ftage. There was no Tomn in the tr;iW for luggage, however. hti'l |>racticnlly nil of it had to be abandoned. T got. twsv from Berlin 5n the Urt train that left that city before England declared v:ir. tad was able to get through withev,! n.uclt difficulty. The French wer, fiantically delighted over England'.-! M. titude."