Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 4 November 1914, Page 5

Germany

THE BELGIAN COASTLINE.

NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT TO SECURE THE VICTORY.

[United Press Association.]

Amsterdam, November 3

Copenhagen reports that the Kaiser presided at a meeting of a War Council at which the Kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg were present. It was unanimously agreed that no sacrifice was too great in order to achieve the north coast of France. After the Council the Kings visited Antwerp and Brussels. BRUSSELS WAR INDEMNITY. Amsterdam, November 3. The war indemnity on Brussels has been reduced to £1,800,000, payable at the rate of £IOO,OOO weekly. _ GERMANS TALK GLIBLY OF THE END. UNIVERSAL MOURNING. (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, November 3. The Germans have installed several fifty-two centimetre guns on Borkum Island, at the mouth of the river Lms. Advices from Berlin state that the general feeling in Germany is that the war will terminate at the end of January. The Kaiser, presiding at a troop parade, fifty miles from the German fighting line in France, congratulated the Brandenburg regiments, and added: “After the war we will all meet again. In any case the enemy will be beaten.” There are sixteen thousand widows in Duswldorf. - Mourning in Cologne, Hamburg and other cities is described as almost universal.