Germany.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 24, 15 September 1914, Page 5

Germany.

ANXIETY IN BERLIN CONCERNING THE CASUALTIES.

THE DISTINGUISHED DEAD.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) London, September 14. Amsterdam advices confirm the anxiety in Berlin. The casualty lists are all behindhand. It is stated that the male members of some distinguished families have been wiped out. DEFECT IN THE GERMAN ORGANISATION. HOW TO FEED A GREAT ARMY. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, September 14. Expert's admit that notwithstanding the perfection of ..the German organisation, they had not solved the problem of feeding a great array at the front.

ALTERCATION IN BARRACKS ENDS FATALLY.

TEN SOLDIERS KILLED.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) Ostend, September 14

It is reported that an altercation in barracks at Etterbeck, between Prussian and Bavarian soldiers, ten were killed.

FAMINE IN GERMANY.

FACTORIES ARE CLOSED AND TRAFFIC CEASED. EGGS AT 10s PER DOZEN. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Rome, September 14. Terrible stories are published of the famine in Germany. The Government has taken all the vast accumulation of food at Hamburg for the troops. Factories are closed and traffic has ceased. Fifteen hundred ships are idle in the harbor. Eggs cost ton marks a dozen. (The value of a mark is Is).

THE “BRITISH” DEFEAT! BERLIN WILD WITH JOY AT THE NEWS. GERMAN " DEBT OF RESENTMENT.” (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, September 14 (evening). German newspapers describe the tremendous enthusiasm of ton days ago on receipt of the officially reported defeat of the British at St. Quentin.

The Cologne Gazette says that amidst the great German successes there is a special interest in the disaster to the British. “Our people,” says the journal, “owe a debt of resentment to England, which might have prevented the war.” Berlin was wild with joy.

At Hamburg there was an indescribable scene on the Exchange when the news was road from the galleries. Many thousands sang “The Watch on the Rhine” and the city bells were rung.

In Munich posters announcing the British defeat were hung round with flowers. FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL.

RED CROSS STEAMER SAILED FROM NEW YORK.

(Received 9.50 a.m.) New York, September 14. The steamer Red Cross, with hospitals for the benefit of all the armies, has sailed for Falmouth,

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