GREAT GUNS FOR THE GERMANS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 11 December 1914, Page 4

GREAT GUNS FOR THE GERMANS.

KRiUPP 'S COMPLETE CANNON OF •. CALIBRE NEVER BEFORE ' * ATTEMPTED. RANGE OP" 25 MTT/ffifi r W . 7~r ' 'Amsterdam, October 83. " Reports are .current in Berlin (that the Krupps have completed Bgme etipnnously ' heavy guns of a calibre and rjtnge never ' before attempted, aid that a large fleet of Zeppelins is being collected paar Kid, awaiting a favorable opportunity to nQ ' / for England, according, to the statement ' of 'a British newspaper man who has just relumed from Berlin to Amsterdam, An artillery officer assured this correspondent that 'the new Krutip-guns have a range of about t)wonty-fiv» »aeß, and probably are destinod for use at - some / J3hannel port 1 in event the"- flimans Be- ' cure a foothold th'fre. Se says that the aeroplane factories in Germany are - working day and flight, /supplying maehiiiea, and that 2QO aviatarfuire qualifying for, military service every week.

'ADMIRE AND fcATE ENGIJSH. , _ "The English are more'" Mated than either the French .or Russigog," hf said* 'tThe Germans would-rather, j»ptinre one Englishman than twenty of .the 'Others. ' In Germany, England is bitmap for it all. rightly or wrongly. She is accused <3 being at the bottom of this titer. Neither officers nor. men of thejQennan army seem to have muah regards the British army as a -fighting machine, bnt they freely admire the pluck .of the Bri- , tish officers and the rapid range-finding ' abilities of British artillery. "Judging from what I saw in Berlin, ' that-city at this moment holds another five or .six array corps of >able-bodied young men attached either to.the first or second reserve or to the LandstUrm. The ' same proportionately' maj* be Bald of all the German' cities. Everywhere I was ' struck) by the boundless enthusiasm for war.-; " !* J| ■■■ f CENSORSHIP IS BlGip.

! . "It is tnie," he continued, "that all the news is subjected to a severe censorship, and therefore the people do not , know other tliaibthat ihay winning * | all along the line. Some mor sober u minds in Germany, admit that tl By win . ' got Jianl sometimes anc somewhere, but they-have no doubt G rmany > ¥ will win. , , * "The prevalent opinion is that n view j of the amount of German blood spilled ' in Belgium that "country inevita' ly will cease to exist except as' a part of the ' :i German Empire, Holland iB regj rdedas a negligible quantity, and'it is tt ten for granted that the low countries will or their own accord become one of < le German boundcataaten.

NEED EVERY AVAILABLE I&JSS. "YVJhile it Jg. true that •thei > have • commercial failures, rnsinem is going on as usual, and in Berl m there are few unemployed. Food is oh ap and plentiful, and it is asserted "thtft thaw is sufficient stock on hand for at least ..three years. So far as I Ger- - many is far from being'on the knee' and we-will fivery. tvailabiliman to dowij an enemy who is bo dotofminedi and whoso enthusiasm borders on fanaticism," : "'■> I t . An 4mwi«aw."Mßident of Berlin. *dt<x Jo