GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 15 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

STATE OF SIEGE PROCLAIMED. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. AGAINST BRITISH INVASION. Received 15, 12.20 a.m. Copenhagen, January 14. Hamburg, Lubeck, and Cuxliaven are declared to be in a state of siege. No reason is assigned, but it is supposed to be a precautionary measure against the possibility of a British attack. GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESSES. COAL SUPPLY. Amsterdam, January 13. A German communique states that after a heavy artillery battle, they captured trenches at Palingabrug, a suburb of Nicuport, and finally repulsed attacks on the canal at La Bassee, also at La Boiselle and Xouvron. Our counter-at-tacks at Crouy completely defeated the French, who evacuated the heights north of Crouy and north-east of Cuffies, which is north of Soissons. We repulsed the French sappers' attacks near Saint Mihiel and occupied heights north and north-east of Nonieny. The Telegraaf states that the Ger. mans are employing 40,000 miners in the collieries at Mons, Liege, and Cliarleroi, sending the coal to Germany, also cutting timber from Namur, Brabant, and Hainault.

PRUSSIAN CASUALTIES. Copenhagen, January 13. Lists 117 to 121 contain 44,290 casualties, chiefly in the fighting in Polnnd during November, making the total Prussian casualties 840,343. THE GERMAN WAR BILL. DAMAGE TO * Amsterdam, January 13. IThe Yorwaerts estimates' that the daily cost of the war to all the belligerents aggregates £9,090,000. The damage done to Belgian property is estimated at £266,000,000, and in East Prussia to £2,000,000.

DECENT TREATMENT OF COLONIALS. London, January 13. A correspondent of the Times points out that Germany has already given preference to colonial prisoners. A party of Australians wan allowed to remain at a hotel, merely reporting themselves twice weekly.

BUSH ON THE FLOUR SHOPS. Received 14. 5.20 p.m. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 14. Copenhagen reports that the new bread regulati.'U- iau-eil an extraordinary rush i..n the flour shops, and additional polite bad to be called out. Housewives waited for hours.

THE -SWALLOWING" PROCESS. j "TOMMY" AMAZED THE TEUTONS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. H-veived 14, 5.20 p.m. London, January 14. Maximilian Harden, the German journalist, writing in "Die Zukunft," declares that "Tommy ha- amazed us all We thought at first lie was something fanny from England. Now we all take him seriously." He comments bitterly oi Britain's mastery of the seas and the swallowing up of Germany's large colonial territories.

810 MOVEMENTS OP TROOrg, TO THE EASTWARD. Received 14, 8.20 pjn. Amsterdam, January 14. The German railways are practically reserved until the 18th for the transport of troops. Foreign military attaches with tho Germans on the western front gone to the eastern froni.