GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 24 November 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

THE KAISER'S AIM. TO PROTECT HIS PEOPLE. COLOGNE GAZETTE GROWS VICIOUS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23, 5.2Q p.m. London, November 22. The Cologne Gazette berates Mr. Asquith for asserting that the 'Kaiser's aim has been wrecked, and proceeds: "The immediate aim of 'the Kaiser is to protect his people from the Turcos, the •English, and Belgians, Sikhs, Russians, and French, and Tartars, and all other black and white or yellow and brown mixtures."

BERLIN PREPARES FOR SIEGE. BIG GUNS MOUNTED. LAYING IN FOOD SUPPLIES.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23, 5.20 p.m. London, November 22. A Russian doctor who escaped from Germany reports that the Germans are preparing on an enormous scale for the defence of Berlin. Guns of the heaviest calibre have, been mounted, and a large quantity of stores aceumtilated. J A STRIKING CONTRAST. A SOCIALIST LEADER ON GERMAN TROOPS. GERMANY STAKES HER ALL. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23, 5.40 p.m. London, November 22. M. Froelstra, leader of the, Dutch Socialists, after a visit to Germany, draws a striking contrast between the departure for the war theatre of fresh, .roung troops, full of enthusiasm, and the returning of the wounded, broken, deadly weary. lie says the feeling in Germany is that of a losing gambler striving to win a fortune in one throw, and staking his all on a single card.

fr A CHANGE OF SCENE,

FIVE MILLION MEN U&DER ARMS. Received 23, 9.40 p.m. London, November 23. The Daily Telegraph publishes the views of an American who recently came from Berlin, and who had ample opportunities of studying the situation. He states that sixty-eight army corps were mobilised, each of 43,000 men, and two million volunteers were ready to fill up the gaps. The Germans are continually changing the units between the two fronts. They find that the journey rests the men, and the change of scene prevents them getting stale.

PANIC IN PRUSSIA. SITUATION 7 BECOMING SERIOUS. GERMANS CHANGE THEIR PLAN'S. Received 24, 12.5 a.ui. Copenhagen, November '23. Panic and excitement arc general in East Prussia. Forty thousand arc fleeing daily. The situation is so serious that Germany is obliged to abandon her intention* of evacuating East Prussia and Silesia, in order to win a decisive victory in the west. AUSTRIANS AND BAVARIANS SACRIFICED. TROOPS SMART UNDER INJUSTICE. TWO MILLION- GERMANS OUT OF ACTION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, November 22. Travellers who have arrived in Copenhagen from Bavaria state that the Bavarian troops are becoming insubordinate. Prussian headquarters is sparing the Prussians and sending troops from South Germany to what are. called Uriah posts. (Uriah, the husband of Batlisheb, was put by ltevid's orders in "the fore front of the hottest battle.") Times and Sydney Sun Services. Berlin, November 22. Well-informed military circles estimate the German losses at one and ahalf million killed, wounded, and missing, exclusive of the, sick, who are reekoiled at half a million. Amsterdam, November 22, All subjects of hostile countries have been ordered to leave Hamburg by November 29. They may reside in another large district subject to restrictions. London, November 22. Dutch newspapers confirm the statement that the discontent among the Ba- . varian ollicers'is increasing. They complain that they are being sacrificed by the Kaiser, and that they are always placed in the front of the firing line. They declare that out of tli'-ee hundred thousand men only a third survive.

CURRENCY VALUE DECLINING. BUT NEWS wmrni'XD. Received 24, 12.25 a.m. Berne, November 23. The exchange value of the German mark has again fallen. It is now 111 centimes, compared with 123 at the outset of the war. GeTnuiny does not al- ' low this news to be mentioned iu tiie German newspapers. Received 24, 12,5 a.m. Copenhagen, November 23. German officials are endeavoring to buy foodstuffs and footwear in Scandinavia. WHY GO HUNGRY? If your stomach is weak and you are suffering from indigestion, don't sacrifice your health and comfort. Eat all the wholesome food you want. TJien take one of Dr. Slfeldon's Digestive