(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) " MY FRIEND LUTHER "

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 55, 6 March 1915, Page 7

(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) " MY FRIEND LUTHER "

ADDRESS BY THE WAR LORD "OURS IS A HARD TASK." AMSTERDAM, sth March. The Kaiser, in an address after service in the park at Nivbowo Castle, in Poland, said : "Ours is a hard task. We have to prove to the entire world that Germany ha-s a right to existence. We Piussians are accustomed to fight and overcome a superior enemy. We should trust firmly in our great Ally above, Who will help our just cause to victory. History tells us that God is only on the side of believing armies. As my friend Luther declared, 'A man with God is always in a majority.' Our enemies are without a watchword. They carry the heavy knapsack of an evil conscience, because they have fallen upon a peaceloving people." "GRAFT" IN RUSSIA DIMINISHED TO A GREAT EXTENT CURT TREATMENT OF ARMY CONTRACTORS. PETROGRAD, sth March. At the opening of the war, army contractors wanted the Grand Duke Nicholas to discuss supplies. They were kept waiting in an antechamber for. hours. Finally the Grand Duke appeared, ignored their greeting, and said: — "Him who steals, I shall hang. Good morning." Graft has diminished to an extent hitherto unknown in Russia. CAPTAIN KINNEIR HIS EXPLOIT EARNS THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS. (Received March 6, 9 a.m.) LONDON, sth March. Tlie King gave an audience to and presented Captain Kinneir, of the steamer Ortega, with' the Distinguished Service Cross. [In November last, the Admiralty commended the remarkable exploit of Captain D. R. Kinneir in saving the steamer Ortega from capture at the end of September. A cruiser of the Dresden class sighted the Ortega at the western entrance to the Straits of Magellan. The Ortega's speed is fourteen knots and that of the cruiser at least twenty-one. Captain Kinneir called for volunteers to assist in stoking, and put the Ortega at eighteen knots' speed. She headed for Nelson's Strait. The cruiser kept firing her two heavy bow guns, without rosuit, and the Ortega entered a etrait where the cruiser did not dare to follow, as it is entirely uncharted, is nanow and tortuous, and bristling with reefs. By sending boats ahead and sounding every yard. Captain Kinneir was able to reach Smyth's Channel unharmed. In addition to the vessel, he saved 300

French reservists who were aboard. The Ortega is a twin-screw vessel of 8075 tons, built in 1906 for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company.]