WORLD WAR THROUGH GERMAN EYES

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13754, 13 November 1916, Page 6

WORLD WAR THROUGH GERMAN EYES

ENEMY'S OFFICIAL REPORTS OF CASUALTIES, J NEARLY FOUR MILLION SINCE OUTBREAK OF WAR. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association and Reufer). LONDON, November 10. The German casualties, officially reported for . October, ar? 199,675, of which 32,544 were killed, making the total since the outbreak of the war of 3,755,693, of which 855,817 have been killed. ' 1 GERMAN CHANCELLOR, AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAB WEAK REPLY TO BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association,) ; AMSTERDAM, November 10. " Dr von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor, replying to Viscount Grey 's speech regarding the responsibility for the war, said that the Russian mobilisation began the war. Viscount Grey's statement was based on the fact'that an edition of the Lokanazieger on July 30th, 1914, falsely announced a German mobilisation, but the Government immediately stopped the sale of the paper and denied the report. Dr Bethmann-Hollweg detailed what lie described as annexation proposals of the enemies of Germany, alleging that Russia had designs on Constantinople, which Britain.and Franceguaranteed, while the French had designs on Alsace and Lorraine. He had never proclaimed that Germany intended to annex Belgium. England joined the war because Germany's peaceful enterprises had become overgreat. It was Europe's unlucky fate that Britain favoured the French and Russian schemes of conquest. It was not Prussia's militarism, .but her hemming-in policy of her adversaries that had caused the war. When the war concluded the immensity of the catastrophe would be realised. There would be an outcry for a peaceful settlement of future quarrels, and Germany would assist in that direction.