GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 1 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

' ■ ». • THOUSANDS DRIVEN MAD. RESULT OF THE FIGHTING. '' Receiyed 1, 12.50 a.ra. Copenhagen, January 31. A doctor who was recently at Berlin states that thousands of soldiers continue to return mentally deranged. He lias seen trainloads of men otherwise perfectly well. , ■■■■■,. DURATION OF THE WAR. J GERMANY'S CAREFUL MEASURES. 1 Received 31, 5 p.m. London, January 30., ' The anticipations of Germany respecting the possible duration of the war is shown by the measures taken to provide against the shortage of. certain classes of food. In some towns ordeTrf have been issued that kitchen refuse not required for feeding animals has to bo saved and handed to the authorities. KAISER'S BIRTHDAY CELE--1 • BRATION9. THE PRESS JUBILANT.' ', London, January 23. The 'Kaiser granted an amnesty to apny offenders to celebrate his birthday; The newspapers in Berlin, including the Socialist papere, publish warm eulogies, and predict that the Kaiser will emerge victorious. / A neutral declares that it is uncjues-. tionable that the Germans have decided" to defray the cost of feeding t'vn army in ,Belgium at .the expense otf tijc eßlgians, and to pay the officers pocket : money fro msums extorted from the . peoplo by fines. The press is jubilant at Sir Edward Grey's crushing reply to Herr vo« Bethmann-Hollweg's allegations. The Daily Express remarks that the world is growing weary of Potsdam lies. Ananias will find again that, the'world is laughing at him. The. suppression •. of truth, false suggestion, disingenuous deductions and downright thumping lies are .utterly ineffective weapons. The Daily News says the desper ite tenacity of the German account of the North Sea fight is plain evidence of the severity of the naval blow inflicted on Germany, whoso people cannot be allow: cd to know the truth. The Mirror calls attention to • tiie. danger of spies masquerading as. nurses. . Lord Kitchener is , thoroughly alive to the menace,, and has caused an invest!- . gatio n to be held. ' At Southampton ' four women who were fcrni:! di-'mssing affairs relative to the army were dismissed. , On the other side of the Channel mat-, ters are more serious. Two nurses found to be spies were effectually dealt with. BRITISH PRISONER SHOWS FIGHT. ARREST OF BRITISH COLONIALS. ReceiVed 31, 3.15 p.m. Amsterdam, January 30. A British prisoner named John Bramble was remanded at Spandon for having assaulted a sergeant who struck' him with a whip. Bramblo ran among the prisoners and a Landwliernian fired» killing another prisoner. The Kolnisclie Zeitung states that sixty British colonials were arrested ati Hamburg, and that ten Australians irel' still free. 1 AEROPLANE RAID ON LIBAU. « , Received 31, 3 pjn. * A Berlin, January 30. 1 It was a Parscval, not a Zeppelin, that' attacked Libau. Its non-return is a& . mitted. ' Wolff's Agency denies the sinking of the Kolberg., 1 Amsterdam, January 31. The Kaiser has returned to Berlin. 1" ;