THE GERMANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2453, 22 September 1914, Page 2

THE GERMANS.

WHEAT BECOMING SCARCE

(Received Sept. 22, 8.50 a.m.) Rome, September 21. Wheat is becoming increasingly scarce in Germany. New York, September 21. Advices from Bordeaux state that Rheims is a mass of ruins, the colleges and public buildings, in addition to the famous Gothic Cathedral, being destroyed. [The city of Rheims, in the department of Manic, 82 miles north-west of Paris, is situated on tho Vesle, an a (fluent of tho Aisne, is surrounded by walls and ramparts now planted with trees. Tho most remarkable building isi tlie city is the Cathedral, which was built in the early part of the 13th century, on tho site of a much more ancient church. In this Cathedral (dedicated to St. Remy, one of the lirst bishops) most of the kings of Franco were crowned. It is still the seat of an archbishopric. The chief manufacture of the city is that of woollen cloth, but the principal article of trade is the wine and champagne.] Capetown, September 21. Gorman patrols wore soon 30 miles from Kakoma (Gorman East Africa). The; Germans destroyed lhe wells within thirty mflcs of' the frontier, rendering an attack from Gordonia difficult. (Received September 22, 10.30 a.m.) London, September 21. A Frenchman, formerly a student at Oxford, writes to an 'English friend as follows: "When tho Germans abandon a village they destroy everything, and kill all the cattle, or else cut of tlio animals' foot. Amsterdam. September 21. A German official communique says: "The. French at Rheims compelled us to reply to their fire. Wo regret that the city was damaged. Orders were issued to spare tho Cathedral as much a.s possible."