GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 26 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

BREAD RIOTS. Amsterdam, February 24. A number of the wealthiest people liav2 left Germany for Scandinavia for the sake of pure bread. Riots occurred yesterday i n several cities. There was much discontent at Magdeburg, where there was insufficient bread. Women and children endeavored to loot the shops. The police suppressed the outbreaks CATHOLICS AND THE HATRED CAMPAIGN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. The Catholic Press in Germany lias endorsed an article by a German cleric deploring the hatred against England as un-Ghristian, immoral and unworthy of the German nation. PREMATURE REJOICINGS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 24. The Berliner Tageblatt assumes that the Russian offensive in East Prussia is finally and utterly broken. T/he clearing out of the Russians in Galicia will shortly be accomplished. The Anglo-French calculations upon the Russian steam-roller have been checkmated. • . l-.'i -p The Kaiser has received congratulations regarding the Mazurian Lakes victory. Thanksgiving services were held in all the Berlin churches. There were impressive 'demonstrations in the streets as the Kaiser, Kaiserin and the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick drove to church. Amsterdam, February 24. German wireless messages report that further hindrances have arisen to the invasion of Russia.

AN IMACIXATIVE HERO. LIONISED AT WILHELMSHAVEX. Received 2.1. .1.25 p.m. London, February 15. A German.writer, with a view of popularising the flaw, describes a visit to Wilhelmslmvcn.' He boarded the submarine U2l. bearing a silver plate with thi. inscription, "A shot from this tube sank the English eruis.r . I'athfinder." The commander was overwhelmed with ] ■resents and offers of marriage. Relating to the sinking of three shins near Liverpool, he said: "I waited vainlv for days for fresh spoils, but no craft under the British Hag dares to enter or leav> Liverpool. Tired of long waiting, I went in search of new adventures "i (he IrUh Sea. There the waters also had been sw?pt free of British shipping."