GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 6 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

GERMAN SUBMARINES ON DOGGER BANK. SC AKKT) BY L'UTISK CRUISER. London, January 4. The Bremen newspaper Weser Zeitimg publishes a submarine sailor's letter in which he relates that submarines were cruising near the Dogger Bank on C hristmas Day but were scared oil' by a Brit'sh cruiser, which attempted to ram them. Amsterdam) January 4. Tiie Berliner Tageblatt publishes a German seaman's letter disclosing the absolute comfort he atul his comrades are experiencing ill the concentration camp at Easteote, Hampshire, and expressing the hope that prisoners in Germany arc equally well treated. The North German Gazette justifies the shelling of Scarborough, because it possesses a redoubt with six G-in. guns. The Germans shelled only the coast- j guard and signal station at Whitby.

PARALYSED COMMERCE. Received 0, 12.35 a.m. London, January 5. The Berlin Chamber of Commerce, in a New Year message to the Kaiser, trusted that all the -wounds .inflicted on German economic life would be healed and compensated for in the future. CONTROLLING BREADSTUFFS. "IMPORTS CANNOT BE RELIED ON." Received C>, 12.35 a.m. Amsterdam, January 5. The German Government is forming a co-operative company, with large capital, to control breadstuffs. It is empowered to requisition stocks. Profits arc limited to five per centum. The prospectus indicates that imports cannot be relied on during the war. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Received C, Y2M a.m. London, January 5. t . A Berlin telegram states that the first exchange of permanently incapacitated prisoners will be made at Geneva this month.