GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 166, 19 December 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

GERMANS WILL NEVER LAND. Received 18, 8.45 p m. Rome, December IS. Tile newspaper Messagero says tlie | German bombardment of British towns I was intended to destroy everything, and I kill unarmed citizens, proving tin; hatred I burning in the German people and the Kaiser against the English Similar action may be repeated, but tins Germans will never land on British soil. GERMAN INTRIGUE IN TRIPOLI. , RUSSIAN CONSUL'S INDIGNITIES. Received IS, 10.5 p.m. Rome, December IS. Count'Von Iluelow lias arrived. | The confiscation of 500 revolvers and g 250 daggers discovered in a German nlli- | cer's empty house in Tripoli is causing t excitement. £ Sofia, December IS. fi Advices from Constantinople state that J Von der Goltz has been appointed Mill- jj turv Commandant of Constantinople, and '< is acting as War Minister, with the Ger- j ( I man, Admiral Sncliom, as temporary ' ' Marino Minister. Knver Pasha commands I the troops in Anatolia, and Djemel Pasha ; in Syria. I It is reported that a number of Turkish ollieers suicided at Adrianople, ' where the. troops are suil'ering from I lack of provisions. The Russian Vice-Consul at the Dar. danelles has arrived at Dedeagatch. Tie states that he was confined in a dungeon with others for a month at Constantinople, and released only when the Italian Ambassador threatened to leave. | APPROACHING BANKRUPTCY'. j Received IS, 8.-15 p.m. j Havre, December IS. j It is ascertained from a sure source that Germany to September Ist had issued doubie the legally authorised I J amount of bank-notes. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE., GERMAN CARTRIDGES RUNNING OUT. Received 18, 8.45 p.m. Copenhagen, December IS. It is stated on high authority that the I Germans have only a fortnight's supply of cartridges, SUCCESSES "MADE IN GERMANY." Berlin, December 17. A communique claims that the Ger--1 mans repulsed the l'reneh at Zollebeke and La Basse, with severe, losses, and that they are also pursuing the Russians in the whole of Poland.