GERMANY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 430, 9 August 1915, Page 6

GERMANY.

NO BLACK TROOPS. [•*nint3” AND “3TUSEY scn” service.] (Received 9 :» a.m.) London. Aug. s . The “Cologne Gazette” states that the Kaiser refuses to admit negroes into the .Jenuan army and the German East Africans have been dismissed at his special request. DISTRESS AND SHORTAGE OF MATERIAL. Berne. Aug. 7. A German merchant in a letter to a friend in Switzerland :a?s that German manufacturers are short of nickel, copper, zine, mangane-e ami tin, mineral and vegetable oils, cut ton, w-jvl. jute and leather. There is much distress among the north west coast population, owing !•> the shipping stoppage, including over a million dependent on the Norddeut sober and Hamburg-Amerika lines and the ducks and fishing industries.

UNTRAINED LANOSTURMERS. Zurich, Aug. 7. German manufacturers oppose call ing up untrained town Landsturm. Several have conferred with the military. VON JAGOW’S INDISCRETION RESIGNATION” EXPECTED. Berlin. Aug. 7. It is stated authoritatively that the Secretary of Foreign Affairs’ (Heir von Jagow’s) resignation is tin ininent as a result of the revelation that bo instigated an attempt to divide the Belgian Congo. It is expected that the Uuder-Secretarv. terr von Zimmermann will succeed him.

A TRAVELLER’S IMPRESSIONS CLANDESTINE PRESS WIDELY BEAD. (Received 9, Liu p.m.) Rome, Aug. b. An Italian who has been travelling in Germany, says that clandestine newspapers, widely published and read, are asking at what price the results were gained during a year of war, and what hope is there of amv- i ing at a peace such as Germany desires. They state that famine is ihrmteriinr tats and Editions of the newspapers are

purchaseable outside Germany. The Germans admit that a shortage of munitions may soon be imminent, | and they wonder whether German science will find, a substitute fur the ingredients lacking. [ A cable from Paris last week stated that Baron Beyers, formerly Belgian Ambassador at Berlin, in a despatch showed that Herr von Jagow. Minister of Foreign Affairs, invited M. Jules Gambon, the French Ambassador m London, to a private conference, and suggested that Germany. Franco and Great Britain ought to come to an understanding regarding the protected railways in Africa. M. Cambon suggested that Belgium =hould also be invited. Herr von Jagow replied : By no means ; our agreement will be at Belgium’s expense . . In view of the "economic transformation of Europe, small nations could no longer enjoy an independent exist enec. M. Cambon retorted : Those are not the views of England ami France. I