GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 126, 21 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

HOPEFUL FEELING PREDOMINANT. ■TARIS WILL YET HE TAKEN. \ j "WOE TO ENGLAND."' Times anil Sydney Sun Services. London, October 1!). A neutral correspondent of tin? Times, writing from Berlin, nays:—"There is no boasting over German suciiesses. 15c rliners say, 'Ves, we've had victories, lint what oi the diaJi' The' theatres arc open and aro crowded to see patriotic plays. The traffic is regular, and wive? of soldiers are acting as tram conductors. The streets are brilliantly lighted. Sport is reviving, and the universities are open as usual. Tie whole population is confident of victory. Th« educated consider the retention of Delginm as unlikely, the dillkulty ef ruling the country being greater than the advantage. Tie populace is not diseouraged by the failure to reach Paris, but is confident'that tbe city will yet Dc taken. Tlie armed invasion of England is mot mentioned, but confidence is reposed in the Zeppelins, a larg« number of which aro being constructed with all speed. Th* bitterest hatred is shows to Engla»d, whose only motive for participating is the war was jealousy of Germany's industrial development and th« desire to cripple German trade; therefore, woe to England!"