GERMANY

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145998, 3 December 1917, Page 7

GERMANY

ALLEGED GERMAN PLANS. FOR WINTER CAMPAIGN. (Received Dec. 3, 11.4-3 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Mr.'Cyril'Brown reports from Stockholm that Germanv will wage a whirlwind campaign in the winter, hoping to achieve victory on the west front by tho end of soring-or early summer at any cost. She will take energetic‘advantage of tho six months’ grace before the United States is-ablc-to turn-the tide of battle, knowing that the New World is mobilising for battle, -not for bluff. The consensus of evidence indicates -that the economic pressure on Germany is -not -unbearable, and that she will be able to survive a fourth winter of war.

WAR CREDIT VOTE PASSED. (Received Dec. 3, 9.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 2. The Reichstag voted a credit of fifteen milliards. The Independent Socia 1ists alone opposed the vote. EXTENSIVE FOOD THEFTS. ' BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. (Received Dec. 3, 10.35 a.m.) ■ PARIS, Deo. 2.. The Matin’s Zurich correspondent states that over a hundred arrests have hecu made at Cologne, including high railway and postal officials in connection with serious robberies of : goods and postal packets. LORD LANSDOWNE’S BLUNDERWELCOMED IN GERMANY. (Received Dec. 3, 8.80 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 2. Herr von Kuhlmann, in the Reichstag, said that Lord’Lansdowne’s letter might be regarded as a sign that moderation was beginning to gain ground in England. -The -English -and -French Governments suppressed peace aspirations* while Germany supported them.