GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 121, 15 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY

THE S'rSAm'Ctt OP DESPAIR. I VBTfifiAK OFFERS CALLED TO TiM,COLORS. Pelrogi-aVH; octobcr 13, A somi-offfefel' message' "j, " tatcs that owing to the grc.lt losses' *. c Gcrman army has sustaiifttf! all offices? \ ' bo liave ever been in the army naVe' % cn or * dered to rejoin at ffmVt'evcF agK. Gcn " erals in retirement wjll obtain- ommv ,S " :-lions in the Landsturm anil Lailtitei r corps. Teachers in the primary sdliHiifc are all going- on active service.. W Amsterdam, October I'3'. i According to the German casualty')' l lists, the Prussian losses alone amount ), to -.'11,000. • |

(In addition to Prussia, there are numerous German states involved— Rartiriit, Saxony, Wurtemburg, etc.) Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, October 13. A lYtnignul correspondent describes the present German operations as the strategy of despair, which is without parallel in the history of warfare.

THROUGH GERMAN SPECTACLES.

A ROSKATE VIEW OF THE POSITION

Times and Sydney Sun Services. j Received 14, S.-25 p.m. London, October 14. The Berliner Tageblatt says that the whole situation is favorable for the Germans. The paper characterises the Russian victories at Suwalki and Augustovo as inventions.

The locality of the later engagements, however, proves that the Germans have been driven westward.