GERMANY.
WAR TREASURE BROACHED. (Received 19, 9.30 a.m.) London, March 18. Germany has opened the Spandau war chest. New 1873 British sovereigns are corning into circulation via Scandanavia.
(The Julius tower in the citidal at Spandau, a town in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, contains the Imperial war treasure —a sum of £0,000,000 in gold, kept in readiness for any warlike emergency, and reserved from the indemnity paid by France after the war of 1870-71. J JAPAN AND CHINA. GERMAN INFLUENCE FEARED. OUR ALLY TAKES PRECAUTIONS. Paris, March 18. The “Petit Parisien” declares that China is kowtowing to Germany, and that Japan is taking military measures and precautions. London, Mar. 18. General Barnard iston, commanding the British at Tsing-tao, expresses admiration for the Japanese excellent fighting machine. The troops were well disciplined, possessing ample initiative. The Japanese have the greatest possible admiration for Great Britain, and realise that as long as Japan and England are friends there will be peace in the Far East. That is what they want.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 396, 19 March 1915, Page 5
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