GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 25 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

ZEPPELIN FOUNDERS AT SEA, Received 25, 1.40 a.m. Amsterdam, January 24. Fishermen who have arrived at Noorjdemyk report that they saw a Zeppeliaj founder at sea, but they were unable to render assistance. THE DUKE OF *J CUMBERLAND. - ! AN ENEMY OF ENGLAND. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 23. A Copenhagen dispatch states thai) the Duk? of Cumberland, interviewed in Vienna, declared that he was der*. man born and naturally feels himself German. In the present "war he hopes for a speedy victory for Austro-Gcrmah arms. Copenhagen recalls that the Duke and Duchess demonstratively departed from Copenhagen when, the Kaiser, in 1903, proposed to visit the Dutch. (The Duke of Cumberland is the son of King George of Hanover, who mar« Princess Alexandrina Mary, daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Alterburg. Kiug George's father was Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, son of King George th« Third of England, who married JPredi erica, daughter of the Grand Duke ot Mecklcnberg-Strelitz. He became King of Hanover on the death of William the Fourth, owing to the exclusionMof Queen Victoria by the provisions of'the Salic Law.)

GERMAN BISHOPS PAST . lAL. "INNOCENT OP THE OUTBREAK OF 'WAR." I [ Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 22. The Catholic bishops of Germany; have issued a war pastoral. It says; "We do not wish to busy ourselves with the account-books of other nations, but with our own. We do not examine our enemy's conscience, but our own. Wi arc innocent of the outbreak of wa»< It wag forced upon us. That we «a> testify before God and the world. There is hardly a household without a dead member to bewail. Still there is no' end in sight, and it is certain only that much misery still awaits us." '

VON MONTLKE INTERVIEWED. EXPEOTUD BRITISH INTERVENTION. . ; Amsterdam, January 88. General von Moltke, in an interview published in Berlin newspapers, said that ho never for a moment doubted that Britain would participate in the conflict. Britain's self-interested poliey was alone unchanged. She had been prepared for war for a long time. Th« Belgium question was merely a pretext, REWARDS FOR DARING. BRITAIN THE OBJECTIVE. Received 25, 1.40 am. Amsterdam, January 24. The Reichß Anziegev states that prizes ranging from £25 to £125 are offered to the first soldier landing in Britain as a combatant, to the crew of every airship flying to the English coast and dropping bombs, and to the aviator, dropping the first bomb in Dover.