GERMANY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 263, 23 October 1916, Page 6

GERMANY.

POLISH REGIMENT REVOLTS. i AUSTRALIAN AND N Z. OABLS A3BN. ] Berne, Oct. 21. The creation of a German Polis’; Legion was a fiasco. The author! ies enrolled 18.000 Poles to fight Russia. Four brigades, numbering 12,000 men, mutinied at the beginning of October and were imprisoned at Brest Litovsk while 6000 others verc sent to the interior of Austria is unreliablcs. The legion enlisted in the belie! hat it was going to fight tor the independence of Poland. It has now liscovered that it is fighting to perpetuate German tyranny. ANOTHER £500,000,000 WANTED AUSTRALIAN ANU SZ I'UtZ »SJ*N Amsterdam, Oct. 21. A German war credit of five hunIred million sterling was proposed n the Reichstag to-day. THE INJURED INNOCENT. MORE KAISER HYPOCRICY. U'STRALIAS X z -VRIF a»- X : Amsterdam, Oct. 21.

Addressing the troops on the west front after paying a tribute to the dead the Kaiser said: We who are living will fight further till nobody ever dare again assail the German people’s honour and liberty. He added that he hoped that God would be with them.

The newspapers are commenting on the use of this expression, instead of his usual “God is with us.”

COLOSSAL EFFORT ESSENTIAL. AUSTRALIAN v 7 hrif ,ssv ' Amsterdam, Oct. 21. The “Koelnische Volkszeitung” publishes a letter from General von Ludendorff. Hindenburg’s Quarter-master-General, declaring that it cannot be denied that it requires colossal efforts to destroy the enemy’s hopes based on extraordinary simultaneous efforts on all fronts. Germany will achieve it if the people unite confidently, not! dissipating the army’s strength by quarreling about the suitability of ways and means. VON KLUCK RETIRED. AUSTRALIAN •NO v 7 r art v *hov 1 Amsterdam, Oct. 21. General von Kluck has definitely retired from active service as the result of shrapnel wounds. The German newspapers eulogise h ; m. describing him as a victor, and his retreat from the Marne as a masterpiece of strategy. DR. BULL’S FATE. PRACTICALLY A LIFE SENTENCE. [AfSTm;u\ on n.z cari.f assn.) (Received 23. 9.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, Oct. £2. Dr. Bull has been sentenced to six vears.

«A cable on October 18 stated that Dr. Bull, an Englishman, was being tried by court-martial at Brussels on a charge of providing Nurse ..ave'i with funds to assist Allied soldiers to escape. Dr. Bull, who is 63 years old, had long resided in Brussels, and was formerly King Albert’s dentist. Mr. Brand Whitlock. the American Minister, watched the trial.]