GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 8 December 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

t ■ I BERLIN GROWS IMPATIENT. AWAITS NEWS OF VICTORY. . [ • Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 7, 5.50 p.m. . London, December C. ' The Times, in a leader, says the I enemy would smash unhappy little Bel- [ gium with positive exultation, but seems ito shiver with apprehension at the thought of the thunder of guns amid his ( own towns. Meanwhile in Poland the £ ' rival armies are still struggling des- ] perately to reach a decision. If the Rue- y sians are silent, the Germans are signi- { ficantly silent, too. Berlin listens vainly and with growing impatience for reports ], of new triumphs. ( ■ a AN OFFICIAL REPORT. k POSITION GENERALLY FAVORABLE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. * Received 7, 5.50 p.m. . London, December 6. A Berlin official message states: "The French attacks in Flanders were repulsed. "The situation in East Prussia is favorable. We captured 1200 prisoners. "Our operations in Poland continue to develop normally." INSURANCE COMPANIES HIT. l Received 7, 9 p.m. S; Amsterdam, December 7. During the last three weeks the German insurance companies have paid fifteen million marks (£750,000) to the widows of men killed, upon policies whereon only one instalment was paid. GERMANS STILL CONFIDENT. a Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December G. A Zurich journalist, after a tour of Germany, declares that while much dissatisfaction is caused by the defeats, Austrians and Germans are still con- ' vinced that they are going to win. Great j hopes are reposed in the Holy War and j the populace is daily expecting to hear ' of serious disturbances in India. j PROTECTION OF ZEPPELIN SHEDS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 0. - A Swiss engineer relates that a great ' network construction has been built to ; ' protect the Zeppelin sheds at Fried- -f----richshafen. The sentinels and aircraft I guns have been doubled and five power- I ful searchlights installed on the hills t to illumine the whole district. 1 STRENGTHENING RHINE ' DEFENCES. ! "* ■■■'.• . i i ' ■ ' .... , ( London, December 0. Private letters from Germany state , that foreigners have been expelled from , the eastern banks of the Rhine, which , are being prepared with powerful , defences. DELAY IS DANGEROUS. We all remember the pretty story of the little hero who saved his native vil- '• lage in Holland, by stopping with his hand, through-out the whole of a dark tumultuous night, the gentle trickle of the sea through a leak in the dyke. Had he not done so the wild sea must surely have worn its way through the dyke i and flooded the village. Similar danger > threaten us here. Hundreds of backs [ are aching, yet people are neglecting j this warning; and it's so easy-to check ! kidney disease if taken in time; but , don't neglect the first warnings. Read i how the danger can he averted: — j Mr. Donald Robertson, Manaia, late [toll-keeper, Junction road, New Plyi mouth, says: "For twenty years I sufj fered with my kidneys. At times backj ache nearly crippled me. If I stooped I I could scarcely rise again, and work j was out of the question. I took enough j medicine to cure a dozen men, if they , had been the right kind. I then got ' Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, and these { seemed to do me good" almost at once, I and a short course completely cured me. Everybody round knows what I < suffered with my back, and I tell them all I have no backache now, thanks to Doan's Backache Kidney Pills." Let this point be fastened in your mind. "Backache is kidney ache, and if neglected brings in its train all the hori rors of advanced kidney disease." Doan's ; Backache Kidney Pills cured Mr. Robert- '' son. "A word to the wise is enough." Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are sold by all chwnistß andstorekgaij^i^j^i,,