GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 2 December 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

j TWO MILLION MEN IN THE | FIELD. ' HEAVY PRUSSIAN- LOSSES. VON MOLTKE A PRISONER. London, November 30. Colonel Schumsky estimates that. 22 to 25 German corps (880,000 to 1,000,000 men) are concentrated on the eastera frontier and 30 to 34 (1,200,000 to 1,300,000) west of the Rhine. Exclusive of the Saxons, Wurtembergcrs and Bavarians, the official lists give the Prussian losses at 627,073. [The population of Prussia is 40 millions, Saxony 5 millions, Wurtemberg 2i millions, Bavaria, 7 millions. As the Bavarians complain they have been sacrificed to save Prussians it is probable that the total losses will reach'one million.] Bayreuth, November 30. The Socialist newspaper Volks Tribune has been suppressed for appealing to the Reichstag to end the persecution of the British in Germany. Amsterdam, November 30.

Berlin newspapers explain that several English racehorse, trainers have been released in order to attend valuable horses belonging to German nobles. London, November 30.

The Daily News' Copenhagen correspondent says that General von Moltke's Danish wife writes that her husband is a prisoner by the Kaiser's orders in the palace of Homburganderhoche for interfering with the Crown Prince's operations on the west front in the early stages of his retreat. The Daily Mail says that four Englishmen, disguised as German officers, were shot in Flanders last week. Amsterdam, November 30.

Cciuit Meilzynski lias been awarded the Iron Cross of the first class for bravery against the Russians. [The Count, in December, 1013, was concerned in a tragedy. Returning from his club late one night ho heard a noise and, attributing it to burglars, went to his wife's ruorp, where he found his nephew. He shot both his wife and the nephew and seriously wounded his wife's companion, who rushed between husband and wife. He then went to his room and wrote a report of the murder, for which he was tried, but was acquitted. He was known at one time as the '"Rod" Count because he was a fierce opponent of Prussian rule, but afterwards was converted to supporting the Kaiser.]

, THE SHIP OF STATE. OX STORMY SEAS. A MESSAGE FROM THE CAPTAIX, Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 1,.a.50 p.m. London, November SO. The Kaiser, in a birthday telegram to Dr. Uethmanu-llollwegg, said: "Luck is necessary to pilot the ship of 'State through these stormy times. Our province employ:; men who light steadily. Among these you occupy first placi!"

Times and Sydney sun Services. ' Received 1, 5.5 p.m. London, Xove>:ificr SO. Contrary to The Hague Convention, Germany is taxing parcels sent to interned prisoners.