GERMANY.
BERLIN OPINION. WAR BONDS OVERSUBSCRIBED London, Sept. 21. An Englishman returned from Germany says that people in Berlin persist that Germany is warring purely in self defence against the wicked ambitions of the. Entente, which is anxious to crush its strongest rival. Educated Germans confidently expect a land victorv, and arc prep tied for a naval defeat. Thev assert the impossibility of a famine in Germany, the crops bein'; extraordinary.
Germany claims that the warbonds of fifty millions have been oversubscribed, and that the sub scriptions to the unlimited loan have reached sixty-three millions. THE RUDE AWAKENING. FOREIGN TRADE GONE FOR EVER. (Received 23. 9.0 a.m.) New York, Sept. 22. Cablegrams from German sources indicate widespread disappointment at the course of events. People arc becoming discontented, particularly in the manufacturing districts, which are realising that Germany s foreign trade is lost. AN EXAMPLE TO BE FOLLOWED Paris, Sept. 21. German newspapers announce that the Russian General Martos was taken in chains to Halle and tried by court-martial for burning German villages ami shooting the inhabitants.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 239, 23 September 1914, Page 5
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