Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 24 October 1914, Page 5

Germany

OR HAVE THE GERMANS JUST REALISED THEIR POSITION?

(Received 8.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 23

The President of the-Prussian Diet, in a speech, said: i -There is scarcely a family in Germany who is not in mourning, but still we will have to make an unmeasurable sacrifice. * We are not fighting for greater power or for the enlargement of.the Empire, or for base commercial profit, but for our home and families, and we will continue to fight until the end is achieved."

PROTECTING THE KAISER.

(Received 9.55 a.m.)

The Daily News states that the Kaiser is staying at the Czenstachow Club. Uhlans and an aeroplane are guarding the house. *

GENERAL.

Amsterdam, October 23

Herr Delbruenck, in the Prussian Diet, said the Kaiser, who was marching with his "victorious" troops, and Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg, accompanying him, regretted that they were unable to attend the Diet. The Finance Bill passed all stages. Many officers ascribe the check of the German advance to Count Von Moltke's forced retirement.

London, October 22

The Amsterdam correspondent of a Barcelona paper reports that the Kaiser is seriously ill. Berne clockmakers are protesting to the Federal Council against the attempts made by German debtors to pay their debts with the new German war loan bonds, which is regarded as a violation of Swiss neutrality. Count Von Moltke, German Chief of Staff, is dying of liver complaint. The Vossische Zeitung, in announcing that the Japanese fleet destroyed forts at Tsing-tao, remarks that Germans musfc accept with resignation what is going to happen in the colonies, remembering that their future will be settled in Europe.