GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 148, 17 November 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

A TERRIBLE SITUATION. ~ GERMANS SORELY STRICKEN. London, November 15. The Times' military correspondent says the situation is becoming terrible far Germany. She Ims gambled for a great success in the west, and lost, but scarcely dares to go back, because the bankruptcy of Prussian strategy would be kid bare to the whole world. Yet it will not avail her to hold part of Belgium when Silesia and East Prussia are overrun, and the German Empire stricken at the heart.

German prisoners state while, the artillery was holding the Allies, thousands ox the Landsturm were working in the fields, threshing corn with French farmers' machinery, using ammunition waggons to cart immense quantities of beet and cereals to the railways for transport to Germany. Maestricht reports that the Germans have commandeered or purchased all the horses in Flanders, assembling them at Ostend. Thence they were sent to Ghent and Brussels.

TREATMENT OF GERMAN PRISONERS. MORE FABRICATIONS!. Received ID, 5.15 p.m. 'London, November 15. The Frankfurter Zeitung alleges that the treatment of German war prisoners in England is so bad that 45 out of 700 died of pneumonia and typhoid in a week, whereas the truth is that only five died, one from heart disease, one from dropsy, one from a fractured skull as the result of an accident, and two from aneurism of the aorta. Officers declare that the Kaiser is determined to instal eight 24-inch guns as a preliminary to the invasion of England. "INSIGNIFICANT PROGRESS'' ADMITTED. Received 17, 1'2.30 a.m. 'London, November 16. lAil official message from Berlin says that the insignificant progress on the right wing is due to the unfavorable, ■weather, and the fighting on the East [Prussian frontier and in Russian Polayd is indecisive. GERMAN 'MEDICAL CORPS BREAKS DOWN. P.eceived 11, 12.30 a.m. Rotterdam, November 16. Newspapers announce that many trainloads of wounded are passing towards Germany from the. Western front. It is reported that the German medical corps has broken down under the strain. An appeal has been made, to Dutch doctors to attend to seven hun- | dred patients in a frontier town, where there was only one doctor and a student. THE CIDER THAT MAKES YOU ASK l FOR MORE! Rnssetta Ciders tike that. The pure apple-juice fiom which it is mad'o is good for the svst m—most beneficial for