Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 37, 30 September 1914, Page 5

Germany

THE COST OF WAR.

FRENCH OPINION OF GERMAN EXPENDITURE £900,000 DAILY.

WILL COST DOUBLE LATER.

[United Press Association.] (Received 8.10 a.in.) v Paris, September 29. The Figaro, summing up the opinion of German experts, states: Their estimated expenditure tor six weeks to :ho date of the first decisive battle was sixty million sterling. r l his was met by taking credits voted for public works. There is another sixty million in the war chests at Spaudau, and t«o hundred millions were voted by the Reichstag. This should give enough support to the war for a yeai. die daily expenses of the three million men mobilised being £900,000, or £328,480,000 for the year.” French economists, however, believe that the cost is ten francs per man daily, which would make 440 million per year. Germany, moreover, will ho compelled to mobilise, six millions. «

RELIEF of wounded.

SUBSCRIPTION OF £IOOO RAISED IN PORTUGAL. (Received 10.35 a.m.) Lisbon, September 29. The sum of £IOOO has been subscribed for the relief of British wounded.

THE SPY SYSTEM.

SUCCESS OF GERMAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE.

Loudon, September 29

The Germans are singularly well informed as to the whereabouts of the Allies. Once a cavalry division dismounted in the shelter of a wooded fill. Immediately shrapnel burst above them. Knowing themselves invisible, the cavalry searched the wood, and discovered German officers and a civilian operating a field telephone. They shot the civilian and made prisoners of the officers.

In Rheims, the French general occnpied a house at night. Shells immediately burst above it, killing the colonel. The staff discovered a spy in the next house, signalling the whereabouts by means of lights.

Three spies disguised as French officers in a motor-car, and a fourth in woman’s attire on a bicycle, were stopped on Saturday at St. Die, attempting to rush through the lines. While they were being examined, a horseman in the uniform of a French major rode up and congratuated the captain on his vigilance. When asked to show his papers he produced a* forged pass. All ,were shot. “MADE IN GERMANY.” London, September 29. An Australian who recently returned from Berlin states that among the lies circulated is that Japan is assisting England on condition that the Japanese are allowed free access to all her colonies. The Germans are intensely annoyed with the Boors’ loyalty. Every German counted upon upheavals in India and Africa, and expected that Canada and Australia would break away from the Empire. He waS asked to distribute copies of a pamphlet addressed to the evangelical churches abroad, signed by a number of Berlin persons. The pamphlet alleges that the Avar Avas Avantonly thrust on Germany, hence destinctions of race, rank, and parties had vanished in holy enthusiasm, looking to God. Germany was uoav prepared joyfully to stake aU for land and liberty, Unnameahle horrors, continued the pamphlet, had been committed against Germans living peaceably abroad, and against Avomen. children, and wounded, and physicians.