SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 5

SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES.

THE "WICKED AND AMBITIOUS

ENTENTE."

KING GEORGE HELPS THE

UNEMPLOYED,

JAPANESE AT KIAO-CHAU

LONDON, Sep. 22

An Englishman who has returned from Germany says that Berlin persists in the statement that Germany is at war purely in self-defence against the "wicked and ambitous entente,?' who are anxious to crush their strongest rival! Educated Germans confidently expect a land victory, but are prepared for naval defeat. They assert the impossibility of famine occurring in Germany, owing to the crops being extraordinarily good. Germany claims that the war bonds for 50 miflEons have been over-subscribed, and the subscriptions to an unlimited loan have reached '63 millions. I

Dr Jowett, preaching at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, said Tie hoped that now Germany would be emancipated from her servitude to militarism, and that now Britain would be purified from moral and spiritual indifference and frivolities.

The King has ordered extensive planting at Sandringham ix> diminish unemployment.

TOKIO, Sep. 22

The Japanese are employing waterplanes to drop bombs in Kiao-chau, the machines subsequently returning to the warships. Some of the forts are bombproof, t ;

The garrison is. granted one day in three for liberty in the town. The reservists are- living in deserted private residences. Shops and restaurants have re-opened, and the music-halls and picture shows are open nightly.