NEW GERMAN ARMY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 11 January 1915, Page 5

NEW GERMAN ARMY.

TRAVELLING TO TIIK WESTERN lUONT. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, January .0. There is strong evidence that Hermans are preparing a new offensive in the we--t. Railways are blocked with nliitary trains, hurrying troops to the westward, including manay young soldiers, evidently part <..[ the new army. DESECRATION OF RELIGIOUS EDIFICES. Times and Symiey Sun Services. Received 10 5.5 p.m. London, January !!. The Pre«s Bureau publishes details of atrocities in Belgium. Churches and religious houses have been destroyed and profaned in almost every village, tae majority of the edifices being utilised for stables and prisoners. THE "GERMANISING" PROCESS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, January 9. The Hutch Press describes the invaders efforts to "germanise" Liegs Everything Elcmist has been expunged. Scenes showing German soldiers providing Bcjjian children with food are pub. lislied in neutral countries. The forts have been restored, and connected by gigantic trenches and barbed wire entanglements. ARISTOCRATIC VANDALS. REPORT ON GERMAN ATROCITIES IN PRANCE, DVKE OK BRUNSWICK. IMPLICATED. Received 10, 115 a.m. Paris, January 10. All Turkish attempts to proclaim a "holy war" at Bagdad were unsuccessful. The Germans mulcted Valenciennes of two million francs, as a protest against some people being found in possession of copies of a song entitled "William's Will," and imposed a fine of a million because requisitioned Hour was not forthcoming. The whole population, including the poorest, have to raise lines, to prevent the threatened execution of the Mavor.

According to tile oHicial report on Herman atroi-itit-s in France, the participators ; n pillage at Chateaubavc included. not the Crown Prince, but his brother-in-law, the Duke of Brunswick. The report mentions the niunes of eight generals and noblemen permitting massacres and vandalism. A TREMENDOUS IMPOST. Times and Sydney Sim Services. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, January 9. A war tax of twelve million francs has been imposed on Courtrai, four millions being demanded instantly. The municipal treasury is empty, and the town is suffering greatly from requisitions. Wool to the value of twenty million francs was seized.