GERMANY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144856, 7 December 1915, Page 3

GERMANY.

GENERAL YON HINDENBERG. ADMITS ALLIES NOT BEATEN. BUT HOPES POE THE BEST. (Received Dec. 7, 10.15 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec, 6. General von Hindenburg, interview-' ed, confessed that the Entente did not desire peace. It Mis not yet sufficiently shattered. They must, therefore, continue to press them. The German tactical situation was excellent. He believed tlio Russian reserves, which had now boon called up, could not create now armies. He hoped there would bo no peace till the chief culprits, England, Serbia and Italy, had been punished as they deserved. NEWS FOR THE WORLD. A FINE SAMPLE OF BLUFF. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. (Received Doc. 7, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. • A German wireless message says that possibly Lord Kitchener’s Territorials have sufficient equipment from Japan and America, but they are not first-rate soldiers. Of tho now four-million army it is considered that at the utmost only one-fourth will bo obtainable. Tho Central Powers and Turkey will lose no time. Their reserves will overpower their enemies. Also quality, and not quantity, will b© the deciding factor for victory. AMMUNITION FACTORY BLOWN UP. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 5. It has been privately learned that a largo ammunition factory' was blown up at Hallo. Several hundred people were killed.

Another factory at, Bojden, in Silesia, narrowly escaped destruction. Underminings were discovered at too eleventh hour.. Many arrests haye_ been made. It is suspected that the. crimes are due to disaffected workmen, SOCIALISTS IMPRISONED. FOR UNWISE REMARKS. (Received Dec. T, 5.50 a.m.) GENEVA, Dec. 6. Three leading Gorman Socialists, Waslscher, Poetsch , and Thetmeyer, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for inciting the public by declaring that the war ought to be stopped before more valuable lives were sacrificed. Another, Cans, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for declaring that German militarism caused tho war, and that he longed, for the victory of tho Allies.