GERMANY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 238, 22 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANY.

j RUNNING SHORT OF WHEAT. (Received 22, 8.50 a.m.) Rome. Sept. 21. I Wheat is increasingly scarce in ' Germany. | BERLIN NOTES. : (Received 22, 9.40 a.m.) ! Hague, Sept. 21. A telegram from Berlin says the Kaiser’s son August Wilhelm was wounded in the left arm, and the Kaiser decorated him. KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE. THUM B-NAIL SKETC’ H ES. f PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. ] (Received 22, 9 a.m.) London, Sept. 21. Memoirs of the Kaiser’s Court, written by a lady employed at the Court, and published by Methuen’s, says : “The Kaiser likes to be identi tied with successful people of ever? class. . He believes himself to be very astute and is blinded by his own brilliancy. He has only one point in view, i.e., his own. Hi:; marvellous memory of facts deduce* j hasty inferences. He relies entirely | on his own personal desires and experiences. The Crown Prince has a facile democratic, easy generosity: which wins popularity. He is very young for his age. and self-confident rather than selfish. Still there is r. good deal of the school boy about him, although since his marriage he has given up bis favourite pastime of sliding down the staircase bannis lers.”

LATE REPENTANCE. A SOP FOR SUPPORT. (Received 22, 9.40 a.m.) Copenhagen, Sept. 21. The “Berliner Tageblatt” says the German policy in North Schleswig has hitherto been a great mistake. The new Governor, Baron von Moltke, is expected to seek to conciliate the two nationalities there. [Schleswig is the northern part of the province of Schleswig-Holstein. North Prussia. In the 10th century Schleswig was closely united with Denmark but after ihe war of 1860 both Schleswig and Holfttein were annexed to Prussia-]