BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 8

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

OPERATIONS AT LILLE

UNPROVOKED GERMAN CRUELTY

WHAT GERMANY WOULD DO.

"CRUSH FRANCE AND ENGLAND,

AND BUY RUSSIA."

BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPVBICVHI

,■; (Received Oct. 15, 10.30 a.m.)

PARIS, Oct. 14,

■ When the Germans were' evacuating Lille they' retreated through, th© suburb of Teres., .where>the market was in full swing. Uhlans lined the pavenientj and at a signalvfrom an officer, ivithout any provocation, and though there were no French soldiers in the vicinity, fired through the windows of liquses.v. Several .people were killed, including a young girl.

v? The. Germans also looted wine and beer, and set' fire, to a number of liouses. '

,'.• Vuring the 6th a regiment of French territorials captured two cannon after killing, all, the Germans serving them.

Throughout the operations at Lille the ; Germans were hampered by lack of ■artillery.. Later in the week the pressure cr the fighting was removed elsewhere. The French state that only a small garrison was left • at• Lille and its capture does not alter the French battle front.

//■v-zvMV Clemenceau, oh xmimpeacliaWe authority, publishes a report of a cou;versationbetween c the German Ambas- ■ sador at' Washington and a wealthy ' 'German American. The latter asked: •"What will Germany do with France?" ;.:• and the Ambassador replied: ''Take all her colonies and territory eastward .-;'.. of ■ St. Valery-en-Caux and Lyons; imr ! pose a. .war", indemnity of four hundred millions 'sterling; get a treaty .allow-- • .ing free entry of all German goods to! ;: Fj-ance for 25 'years without recip-! rqcityj that no recruits shall be levied ; :in France for 25 years, andthe trans- ■ fer to Germany of three milh'on rifles,^ I", three thousand cannon, and forty thoii- ,; isand horses; that all (German patent >rights; shall be observed in France without reciprocity; arid that France shill sign an alliance to Germany." i'The, Ambassador added that Germany ;: ;wbiild buyj Russia arid crush England, :j; whereupon England iurn^agaihsi ■I:-.;^u^iia.. "arid appeal to Germany "for .v.'■•. Help .::-■..-■.;■■.: ■■';•'. ■'.-.">'■•::.•'.•;■;"■.■■■'••■ V • ,; ;•;•;? i^Pi^OGIIAD,; /Oct. ■ ';,,; ?; ;^Ther T^leg^ of great ac-- : i|vx^; at' r l^e>^ at t Emnierich^ ■ Workmen are busy day ;1 and night producing hydrogen for Zep- J ;fpeKris;;r;-'-.'-':'/;;■;'.'■■:■/" ■•■''•..•■' ■ '■■