GREAT GUNS FOR THE GERMANS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 164, 17 December 1914, Page 6

GREAT GUNS FOR THE GERMANS.

KRUPP'S COMPLETE CANNON. OAiLIBRE NEVER BEFORE ATTEMPTED. RANGE OF 23 MILES. Amsterdam, October 23. Reports are current in Berlin that the Krupps have completed some enormously heavy guns of a calibre and range never before attempted, and that a large lleet of Zeppelins is being collected at Kiel, waiting a favorable opportunity to sail for England, according to a statement of a British newspaper man wdio has just returned from Berlin to Amsterdam, An artillery oliitvr assured this correspondent that the new Krupp guns have a range of about twenty.live miles, and probably are destined for use at some Channel port in the event of the Germans securing a foothold there, lie also says that the aeroplane factories are working day and night, supplying machines, and that 200 aviators are qualifying for military service every week. ADMIRE AND HATE ENGLISH. •"The English are hated more than either the French or the Russians," he said. "The Germans would rather capture one Englishman than twenty of the others. In Germany, England is blamed for it all, rightly or wrongly. She is accused of being at the bottom of this war. Neither officers nor men of the German Army seem to have much regard for the British army as a fighting machine, but they freely admire the pluck of the British officers and the rapid range-finding abilities of the. artillery. "Judging from what I saw in Berlin, that city at this moment holds another five or six army corps of able-bodied young men attached to either the first or second reserve or to the Landsturm. The same proportionately may be said I of all German cities. Everywhere I saw 1 boundless enthusiasm for war. | CENSORSHIP IS RIGID.I "It is true," he continued, "that all ' the news is subjected to a severe cen. . sorship, therefore the people do not ! know other than they are winning all I along the line. Some more sober minds in Germany admit that they will get hard knocks sometimes and somewhere, but they have no doubt that Germany L ' will win. : "The prevalent opinion is tin-.t in view ■ of the amount of Gorman blood spilled ' in Belgium, that country will inevitably • cease to exist except as a part of the 1 j German Empire. Holland is regarded as ' a negligible quantity, and it is taken ' for granted that the low countries will ' of their own accord become one of the I German boundstaaten. ! j NEED EVERY AVAILABLE MAN. , J "While it is true that there have been ,' j many commercial failures, business is •i [ going on as usual, and in Berlin there i i are few unemployed. Foor ir cheap and 1 J plentiful, and it is asserted that there f J is sufficient stock on hand for at least c 1 three, years. So far as I can judge, Germany is far from being on 'tin. knee,' and 3 we will need every available man to .; down the enemy who is so determined, i and whoso enthusiasm borders on fanai ticism."