GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 189, 19 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

Till-: KAISKIfS BIRTHDAY. XO COXGi;,\TUI.ATOftV MESSAGES TO UK SEXT. UK REALISES "THE GRAVITY OE THE SJTUiTIOX." BIRTHDAY PRAYERS 'RECOMMENDED. ' Received 18, 8.40 p.m. London, January' 18. Tlie Kaiser, in requesting that no festivities be held on his birthday, desires that all should realise the gravity of the situation and the direction in which fortune seems to have turned her face. He. asks that the customary letters and telegrams be foregone, as it might interrupt postal and telegraphic services which are already over-taxed, and interfere with His Majesty's work at headquarters, lie declares that such messages are not needed in these days of tribulation \vhlih have come to the fatherland. His Majesty oilers his thanks in advance, and asks, that supplication be made to the Throne of the Most High.

[The Kaisers natal day h January 27th.]

NUW KIXAXOE MINISTER,

Received !!), 12.15 iI.KI. Amsterdam, January IS. ■ Professor Ualfcriehcr, Director of the. Deutscher Hank, succeeds Tlerr Kuclm as Minister of Finance. SCARCITY OF WHEAT. PURE AVIIEAT BREAD FORBIDDEN. SIGNS.OF THE TIMES. Received 18, 8.50 p.m. Berlin, January 18, Orders have been issued in Germany declaring it unlawful to make pure wheat bread, also prohibiting the buying and selling of gold coins at above par, under a fine of live hundred marks and a term of imprisonment. THE CRAFTY GERMAN. KEEPS THE, PEOPLE IN THE DAR C Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 17. German civilians released from ihe. French con ;entration tamp have been forbidden to re-enter the. Fatherland because having read the truth in the papers, they will spread discontent.