GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 11 November 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

KAISER IN FULL CHARGE. QUOTES A NEW PARTNER. . OBSESSED BY HATRED OF BRITAIN. WORRIED, MOROSE, AND FRETFUL. London, November 9. The Standard's Copenhagen correspondent says that General von Moltke's dismissal, which is officially announced, is due to the Kaiser's desire for complete control. ; New York, November 9. A correspondent states that the Kaiser's personal guards- have been doubled and no stranger is allowed within revolver range. He is worried by the tremendous losses on the battlefield and the death of tcores of his personal, friends. The Kaiser is haggard and weary. He dines at mess nightly, hut is dull, morose and fretful. His animus against England amounts to an obsession. He avoids his bombproof field cottage and prefers his .railway sleeping car, regarding is as safer than a stationary structure. Times and Sydney' Sun Services. London, November 9. The German press publishes the Kaiser's daily speeches in addressing the troops in North France. Each concludes with the declaration that the enemy are certain to be defeated. It is notable that the speeches no longer include references to God, only to Frederick the Great.

BAVARIANS NOT UP TO | REPUTATION, l | London, November 9. In view of the Kaiser's wish that tlie Bavarians should meet the English just once, prominence should be given to the surrender of ljl) Bavarians to the British last week, also the British victories in the ilessines region, and to the. fact that 200 Bavarians have been sent to Germany for trial for refusing to fight. It is noteworthy that the German and Austrian 'newspapers now make the briefest references to the lighting. The Austrian-; ignore the latest Russian victory.