Germany.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 279, 4 May 1915, Page 5

Germany.

LANDSTURM SUMMONED.. GEKMANY'S IXTEXTIOXS. GERMANY WILL GIVE XJ QUART lill. Amsterdam, Jlay 2. The Berliner Tageblatt announces that the summoning of the Landsturm .begins on Monday with the 1870 class and ends on the 12th with the IS7U class. There will be a further summons on June 4th of the 1875 class, ending on June 10th with the 1809-70 class. The German Conservative papers condemn Herr Demburg's speech at the University Club, Brooklyn, in which he stated that Germany would voluntarily evacuate Belgium and France on condition that the freedom of Vtv seas was guaranteed and the freedom of Germany to expand beyond her European frontier's permitted.

The Post declares that the speech supplies the final, proof of Herr Demburg's incapacity. The Vorwaerts declares that Herr Dernhirg said nothing that win not justified by Herr von Bethmami-liollwcg'sj speech at the beginning of the war, when he said that Germany wished to wage only a defensive war.

Baron von Ticdlitz, writing to the Berlin Post, said that no quarter was given at Ligny in 1815, and this may be repealed on a greater scale owing to' the provocative speeches of .Messrs Asquith and Churchill and Lord Kitchener regarding the treatment of British prisoners.

The Vorwaerts disapproves of the threat, saying that such articles increase hatred on both sides, and t ; ms innocent soldiers suffer.