GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 165, 18 December 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

THE FIGHTING IN SOUTH GERMANY. A FIGHT TO A FINISH. London December 10. A correspondent in Soutli Germany > states that Liege and Namur liave been rebuilt and strongly fortified. .Important road crossings of railways and the most important buildings in Brussels have been mined, and only need pressure on a button to eonu'rt them into a heap of ruins. South Germans are not enthusiastic about the war, but realise that they must stick together. The popularity of the Kaiser will be lessened when they recognise the hopelessness of the case. The southern Stales will Tm; the first to cry for peace. After the war the prestige of Prussia will suffer heavily and probably disappear. The correspondent is firmly convinced that tlie German people will fight to a finish and when finally forced' to surrender it will not be for want of soldiers food or money. The greatest danger lies in the supply of ammunition. Germany is very short of saltpetre. [Saltpetre, is known to chemists as potassium nitrate. This is obtained by treating sodium nitrate imported from Peru, with potassium chloride mined at Stassfurt, 'Germany. This treatment replaces the sodium of the sodium nittrate by potassium.] THE KAISER'S ILL HEALTH. Paris, December 10. The Copenhagen correspondent of Le Temps says that the Kaiser, although his condition is serious, vowed that he would quit bed and proceed to the western battlefield, despite the supplications of tlie Kaiserin and the advice of his doctors. BRA-WING ON 'FINAL RESERVES. Received 17, XMi p.m. London. December 10. Dutch sources report that Berlin is calling up the miclrillcd Lnndsturm between t.lio ages of 301 and 45.