From Various Sources

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 17 October 1914, Page 5

From Various Sources

Received 16, 12.80 a.m. « . London, October 16. I There arc 25,000 refugees in the Folke* stone district, and a million in Holland* [including 50,000 at Rousand. Received 17, 12.16 a.m. ' j Madrid, October 15. Following the Britisn Council's de» nunciation, the authorities seized a data destine wireless apparatus installed by W'ickonigg, an engineer in the Austrian Consular Service.

EVERYTHING ENGLISH HATED. ,

The present hatred of everything Eng> hsh in is by.no means favourable to the German trade-faker, who for years Jias sold German-made hats with. j "best quality" stamped inside, and Ger[man leather goods marked, "guaranteed beßt English." The, Berliner Tageblatfc reports from Brdmen that a firm which for years has been selling Sheffield steel in Germany, has just sent a circular to its elicnts announcing that since the warit has broken off all the relations with manufacturers of steel in Sheffield. The circular naively added that tha'Bre* men firm could go'on delivering--j the "Sheffield steel" as, in point of fact, th.B steel has always come from Westphalia and had only been accounted as coming from Sheffield. AH French, Russian and British names and inscriptions have been altered in Germany. The English Worcester vause is not now obtainable in restaurants, and English porter has been given a German name.