GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 16 November 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

A LETTER FROM BRITAIN. GOOD TREATMENT W ALIENS. Received 15, 5.3 p.m. •1-1 „ ' Bcrlin > November 14. J. lie Vorwavrts publishes long articles from its London correspondent describing the treatment of aliens. This says that the action of Hie poliee throughcut is extremely forbearing polite, and obliging, and adds: "The liritish people generally entertain no feeling of hatred against the Germans, and much less against the Adrians, though they are convinced that Germany instigated the war for the extension of her power.'

j TOO FAIR TOR THE KAISER. I LETTER, CAREFULLY CENSORED. Received 18, 5.5 ip.m. Amsterdam, November 14. ' The Press Agency at Berlin i circulating thn Vonvaerts' article for newspapers in neutral countries, omits all xeferencas favourable to England. FAULTY ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WOUNDED. LIE NEGLECTED IN THE . BENCHES. EVENTUALLY TRAVEL IN DIRTY TRAINS.

Received 15, 5.S p.m. Amsterdam, November 14. The Tclegnif quotes Professor <Ezermy's articles in the Medical Journal | showing tlm honors of transporting i German wounded. He savs thai half the wounds are. due to shrapnel and |lits of dirty uniforms are driven into ihe flesh. Sometimes the wounded lie for days in trendies half full of water. I They are packed into dirty tracks preI vionsly used for jiorses, forage, or am- | munition, and unroptected from the cold 'make, a tra-n journey from four to six days. (Meantime the wounds are 1 > ridresscd the men have little food, and ! in most cases no doctors or orderlies, or | properly equipped hospital trains. There 'are insufl'cient tents for t3ie German I wounded.

SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION FEARED. Times Sydney Sun Service. Received 14, 8 p.m. Rome, November 14. It is stated that the Germans are experiencing anxiety lest there will be a shortage of ammunition, as a result of the British fleet preventing the delivery of copper to Germany.

A DEMENTED DUKE. REASON UNSETTLED BY THE WAR. Received 15, 5.5 p.m. London, November 14. Copenhagen reports that the Duke of Cumberland was found wandering in a demented condition, the result of the war, and placed in an asylum.

(Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick and Limeburg, heir to the Hanoverian Crown, was born at Hanover in 1845. He took part with his father, as an ally of Austria, in the campaign against Prussia, which ended in the defeat at Langcnsalza in ISOB. In 1878 he married Princess Thvra, daughter of King Christian IX. of Denmark. In 18fl2 he abandoned his claim to the Crown of Hanover. Though direct heir to the late Duke of Brunswick, he was not allowed by the. German Federal Council to govern that duchy. He was a general in the British army since 1898.)

THE KAISER AT COBLEX2. COMMERCE STARVED. The Hague, November 13. A telegram from Berlin states that the Kaiser is now at Coblcnz and that two Zeppelins arc continually circling over his residence. London, November 13. The Standard states that petitions in bankruptcy filed in Hamburg alone since the beginning of the war disclose a deficit of £25,000,000.

i .GERMANY'S MYTHICAL MILLIONS. ANOTHER BOASTFUL UTTERANCE Received 14, 8 p.m. London, November 14. Berlin boasts that Germany is able to send six million more trained men into the fighting lines. The Kaiser has offered his marble palace at Corfu at a ' low price to a German hotel syndicate. I He fears the property will be confiscated j if : Greece joins the Allies.