GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 31 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY.

INCREASING UNEASINESS. PUBLIC WANT THE TRUTH. TREMENDOUS GERMAN LOSSES. | SHORTAGE OF FOOD AMONG ! SOLDIERS. I London, October 23. The Chronicle stales thai iuformalion via Holland elbows that there is increasing public uneasiness in Germany. There is a. widely-prevalent suspicion, particularly in commercial circles, llmi the truth of the military situation is being withheld. An Englishman at Copenhagen writes that American cargoes are systematically discharged in Norway, reloaded in other neutral ships and sent to Stettin. Hundreds of tons o f tea from Liverpool, ostensibly for Denmark, are sent, from Copenhagen to Norway and thence 1o Stettin. Similarly copper, nickel, and benzine are forwarilid in barrels, the bills of lading describing them as her■lings. i Copenhagen, October 29. | Parliament has adopted a Hill penall isinsr false declarations regarding the i destination of a ship or goods. Amsterdam, October 20. The Germans admit that they have neTcr lost £o many men as on the Yser. Of one group of iaO only two returned. ENORMOUS WAR RILL. STATES MOST PAY. BUT WHICH ARE THEY? Received 30, 0.15 a.m. London, October 29. Professor Julius Wolf, of Berlin, es- : timates that the armies in the field are ' costing 7'/ 2 million daily and people must i reckon that the waste in Germany will \ be 350 millions in the next three months, j The conquered States will have to pay an enormous bill. AN INTERESTING COMMENTARY. GERMANY HAS FOOD SUPPLIES. .. Received 30, 8.20 p.m. London, October 29. The Economist, commenting on the further increase in the price of corn in Germany, states that it would be unwise to anticipate a shortage of food supplies in Germany for many months. It is inconceivable that the Government would have plunged into a great war -unless it was sure of at least a year's supplies.

A BELATED SUGGESTION. REPRISALS SUGGEST REPRISALS. Received 30, 8.20 p.m. Amsterdam, October 28 The 'German Press is urging reprisals against the rounding up of alien enemies in Britain.