IN GERMANY.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15465, 18 December 1915, Page 11

IN GERMANY.

NEW WAR CREDIT. FINANCE MINISTER'S BOAST BRITISH EMPIRE TOTTERING. AMSTERDAM, December IG. .Dr. K. Holfferieh, Minister of Finance, in introducing a war credit for £500,000,000 in the Reichstag, said: "Your voting of this credit will prove that all calculations on Germany's weakness, disunion, weariness, and famine are wrong. England is. faced with a convulsion. Her prestige in the international money market lias gone. Both England and Franco sought a credit in America, but their lack of success was greatly duo to the resistance of Ger-man-Americans. "\Yn are almost exclusively paying interest to ourselves while our enemy is paying his abroad. Therein lias ouf guarantee that we will maintain our advantago in the future. "With the shaking of British financial powers, the foundations of the British Empire is tottering. When it goes to pieces itwill never rise in a millennium. Tho German Iron Fist, which has now blown up the 'Iron Gate, T and opened the road to the East, is ready to strike anew. We stand as a rock, but on the golden pillars of tho British Empire gleams in flaming characters the warning: 'Mono, meue, tekel, upharsin.' " THE CENTRAL EUROPE GOSPEL. DR. DERNBURG'S MISSION. ("Times" and "Sydney Sun'' Scrricts.) (Received December 17th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December I<>Dr. Dernburg has been sent to

Austria-Hungary, the Balkans, and Turkey, as the apostle of Prussia's now Central Europe (Jos-pel. Lecturing in Vienna, lie said that Central Europeans did not .need the Men. ns a. road to North India, but- in future they must devoloi) the navigable canal system of Central Europe. GERMAN WAR PICTURES IN CHINA. CAUSTIC COMMENT. ("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Son-iocs.) (Received December l"th, C».."> p.m.) LONDON, December 1(3. The Germans are displaying in notitral countries ;i liundred war films. Those used in China, are inscribed with descriptions in English, Chinese, ami German. The "Daily Mail" remarks:—"More than these are needed to wipe out Chinese recollections nf the ferocities of German troops in ]!>>•>.'' IRONMASTERS- ALLEGED OFFER. iron coins in circulation. ( Received Decern her lSth 1 .°Ci ain ) COPENHAGEN, December 17The German ironmasters offered the Chancellor enough ammunition and war material to end the war if he guaranteed that Germany's frontiers would be extended. The Chancellor naively replied that he regretted he could not promise this. Seventeen million iron pfennig coins were distributed in Germany during November for home use. Nickel and oppor coins arc being kept for war purposes.