GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 27 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

ALL-ABSORBING AIR RAID. THE HIGH-WATER MARK UF GER--I£AN ATTACK FRESH ZEPPELIN KXPLOIT EXPECTED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 25. Copenhagen learns from Berlin that it is certain, as the result of the expressions of semi-official press, that fresh and considerably more effective air raids on England will shortly be attempted. The German people now show little interest in the happenings at either battle-front, and nobody talks cr thinks of anything except air raids on Britain. Berne, January 25. It is reported that two giant Zeppelins, each carrying one aeroplane and one waterf'.ane, left Friedrichshaven in the direction of Belgium intending to carry out some exploit on the Kaiser's birthday. Amsterdam, January 25. The Handelsblad states that the raid on Essen wrecked the motor-car repairing shed and 400 cars. Neutrals from Germany state that the Kaiser, at the instance of General Falkenhayn, the late Prussian War Minister, vetoed the Crown Prince's instructions to his generals, resulting in a scene between the Kaiser and Crown Prince.

IMDKMNITY TO LUXEMBOURG. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 25. Up to the present Germany lias paid Luxembourg 2,000,000 marks as indemnity for the passage of troops. German commercial travellers have returned their badges of honorary membership of the British Commercial Travellers' Association because England's business actions against Germany have reached a degree of hatred and unscrupulousness never before known in warfare amongst "kultured" nations. They declare that it is evident that it in Britain's intention to destroy the German nation entirely. THE DACIA INCIDENT. j STILL ANOTHER RISK. Received 27, 12.45 a.m. London, January 2(1. Nddeke, a jurist, in an article in the Cologne Gazette, referring to the Dacia, tays it is doubtful whether tlie change of flag will he recognised under German law. The German prize regulations provide that a change )t Sag must not be recognised by German war ships if the commander is convinced that the transfer would not have taken place without the outbreak of war.