GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 16 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

"FINISHING OFF" RUSSIA. PRUSSIAN OPTIMISM. BRITAIN AS A GERMAN COLONY! Loudon, February 14. A Swiss, who recently spent twentyfive days in Germany, says that complete confidence reigns in Prussia. There is some alarm in Baden over the French advance in Alsace. Saxony is confident, Wurtemburg uneasy, and' Bavaria: depressed. The, Prussians say they will have Warsaw and finish off Russia, this month, and have Calais by Easter. They will make a favorable peace with France and occupy the French ports urjil the struggle with Britain is concluded. The.y will sign peace in London in July or August, when Britain will become a German colony.

THE KAISER STUPEFIED. ALLEGEDLY ANXIOUS FOR PEACE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 14. Copenhagen asserts that the German situation in Poland has stupefied the Kaiser.

Bankers have been summoned to a secret conference in Berlin respecting the new Avar loan of 250 millions. A Zurich correspondent asserts that the Kaiser hopes for an approach from Russia to conclude peace, believing that the German coterie is sufficiently influential in Petrograd to assist him.

.Sofia, February 14. M. Radoslavofi', in the Sobrauje, declared that a Oerma n official inquiry showed to August that the harvest shortage of cereals in Germany amounted to 1,000,000 tons.