GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 119, 13 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

"ME UND GOTT." KAISER REITERATES HIS DIVINE MISSION. GERMANS "THE CHOSEN (PEOPLE." Received 12, 6 p.m. London, October 11. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Faris states that a Warsaw newspaper contains the text of the Kaiser's latest proclamation, addressed to his eastern army: — "Remember, you are the chosen people. The spirit of the Lord has descended upon me, because I am the Emperor of the Germans. I am His Word and representative. Therefore, death and destruction be to all resisting my will, doubting my mission; and so perish all tbo enemies of the German people I God demands their destruction; God, Who, by my mouth, commands you to execute HU will." ANOTHER MISSION FOR HIS MAJESTY. FOR A RAREE SHOW. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 12, 5.50 p.m. London, October 12. The Russian-Polish peasants have conceived the idea of capturing the Kaiser, putting him in a cage, and exhibiting him, the charge made for admission being used to augment tho war funds. PORTUGAL MAY TAKE A HAND. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 12, 5.50 p.m. London, October 12. The semi-official German news bureau announces that Berlin momentarily expects a declaration of war by Portugal [against Germany. {The embroilment of Portugal would close; many neutral ports, notably the Madeiras, and in Portuguese East and West Africa, against the enemy.) SYSTEMATIC LOOTING. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 11, 5.50 p.m."" London, October 12. The Germans, when retreating from Suwalki, looted systematically. One thousand two hundred peasants' carts were commandeered for tho transport of their booty.

TUB KAISER'S CABLE TO AMERICA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 12, 5.50 p.m. London, October 12. The Berliner Tageblatt explains that the Kaiser's cable to the United States' President was not intended to elicit his judgment, but only to enlighten public opinion in the United States.