PLAN THAT DIDN’T WORK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3872, 8 March 1915, Page 5

PLAN THAT DIDN’T WORK.

WHAT THE ENEMY WOULD HAVE DONE TO PARIS.

AN INTERESTING REVELATION

(Received March 7, 5 p.m.) PARIS, March 6

“Le Matin’’ states that the Germans, expecting an easy capture of Paris, divided tho city into seven sectors, each to receive a garrison or 100,000 men and tho Kaiser at tho heaa of an 'army of a-lnilf million men was to be beforo the fallen city. It Avas proposed in the truce terms that the French Government should return from th provinces and ho told that perhaps soldiers and sailors must invade England. If France had refused one of the sectors Avould have sacked the public monuments and destroyed the Banks and private houses and pillaged. After this example a fresh ultimatum would have been presented and if it had been refused a second sector Avould have been handed to the military. Germany believed that Russia’s ammunition would not last another three months.

N.Z. OFFICER KILLED. OPERATIONS IN PERSIAN GULF. (Received March 7, 3.10 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. Lieut. Kenneth Thompson, of tho Indian Cavalry and lately of Geraldine, New Zealand, was killed in the Persian Gulf.

SEVEN MONTHS OF WAR.

A GERMAN 'REVIEW

(Received March 7, 3.10 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 7, The “Cologne Gazette,” reviving the situation after seven months of Avar, states that the German labor market has maintained conditions and js generally favorable. Both goods and passengers traffic on the railways have almost equalled 1914. It argues that these modest facts are as significant as the news of a victory, as showing that tho country’s economicstrength is unbroken.

FOOD RIOTS IN GERMANY.

CROWDS BESIEGE THE MARKETS. POLICE CHARGE THE MOB. (Received March 7, 3.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 7. There are heavy food exports from all parts of Scandinavia to Germany, and 6000 cars arc -waiting to discharge orders. The Associated Baconfactors censure fellow-members trading with Germany, who offers high prices. There are serious riots in the western cities of Germany owing to the scarcity of potatoes. Crowds besieged the markets at Cologne and looted the shops. The police and military used their swords and rifle-butts and blind reds of women and children were inj'iitvd. The statue of Petit- Uablon in the square of Brussels has been despatched to Germany.

Tlie enemy unsuccessfully attempted to take the massive bronze doors of St Marie Church.

BRITISH GENERALS DECORATED. HONORED BY THE FRENCH. PARIS. .March 5. General de la Croix, late Command-er-iu-C'hief. presented Field-Marshal Sir John French with the Medialle Militaire. Ho is the first Englishman to receive it.

Generals Wileoeks, Allenbv, . and Pulteney received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.

GERMANS BLAME THE KAISER. SCATHING WAR PROTEST BY SOCIALIST SOCIETY. The Exchange Telegraph Company has received from Rotterdam the following New Year’s appeal,, which has been issued to Socialists in Europe and America bv the Committee of the German Humanity Leaguer — • r on the eve of a New Y r ear which opens upon scenes of foul and ruthless cries, unparalleled even in the massacre rolls of our nation’s infamous accomplices at Constantinople, we appeal to our brethren on the Continent of Europe and in the United States of America not to hide themselves behind the screen of neutrality. "DRIVEN INTO A WICKED WAR" “We are face to face with the enemies of mankind. The Herman nation, driven into a wicked war by the Kaiser and his military entourage, cajoled by perjured statesmen in the_ Reichstag, and by false records circulated in every State in order to deceive our compatriots, lias recklessly hurled. itself blindfolded against forces which, sustained by indisputable moral considerations, show no signs of weakening in their determination to expel from Belgium the troops which covered her inhabitants with blood and irreparably injured an innocent nation our rulers nad sworn to protect. CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES.

AVe ask you to remember that the territory- of no -German State has been menaced by the Allies, who aro lawfully and Jionorablv defending the plain rights of the cruelly outraged Belgians with the goodwill of me world. Every German citizen has so,di times and everywhere beon free 10 pursue his calling unmolested. "In Japan, Russia, Franco, and Great Britain we have enjoyed civil righto and liberty as traders. The Empire was free in the markets m the world to deve’op in friendly rivalry with other .States its arts, its commerce, and its manufacture--. "'All our legitimate economic interests were safeguarded, protected, and defined by treaties and conventions. • ‘DIRER ISHARI/E INFAMY."

"Fellow workers, can you longer remain idle and silent spectators of these stupendous crimes? Aro you lor ever co be dumb in view of the awlul scenes of carnage in Flanders, in Brabant, in Alsace, and in Lorraine? Do you not see amid tlio maiming and slaughter of innocent, Unarmed old men, women, children, and infants at the breasts, that the Kaiser has covered our nation with imperishable infamy, and that the toll of war means the sacrifice of the precious lives of toilers and wage-earners in a devilish campaign, barbarous in its methods upon sea ae upon land. TI-JE RUIN OF FIVE MONTHS. "Already in five months our homos, our trade, our enterprises have been mined for at least 50 years, and if the war continues loss or life and economical devastation "will scourge the Fatherland for a century. “We know from authentic intelligence which reaches us that a restless, •ndignaht, and deceived democracy, now undergoing privations and nursing its griefs, cannot he restrained by force from active protest, and we must earnestly appeal to every comrade wlm cares for the maintenance of international obligations to strive his utmost to crush and sweep away for ever the domination of Prussian militarism within Germany which, by its conspiracy against humanity, has disgraced and humiliated our- nation in the eyes of the civilised world. . . . • "(Signed) Karl Bernstein, Jacob Jiiimeistlorf, Emil Gott, Conrad Schwabe, Gustav Oclis, Ernst Schuster,Franz Gaussen, Alb-rechto Zettetl. "Rotterdam, December 29, 1914.”