NEWS FROM GERMANY

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15448, 10 September 1914, Page 8

NEWS FROM GERMANY

IMPORTANT IF TRUE. KAISERS CHIEF MINISTERS. MAY ROTH RESIGN. HOME. Sept. S. Pies- announces that a sorimi; controversy lias arisen between the Kaiser. !>:if.;ii v.i;i ]|i;'.hv<.-V a iul llerr i]i,. IM -» ministers hcing m_ i.ifU'il it.r n».irly ad 11 io European .-lalos « t ni>) : n:n- a-jan-L Gonnany. 1 hc.r i-,-.,'-jjai;o:is are po<.>il>\.\ PRESS DENIAL. OF BRITISH STATEMENT. ON THE WRONG SCENT. LONDON. Sept. 8. ll:r- "Nordeutsche Zeitnnjr"' con trail icis M' Edward G ivy's statement that Germany suppressed Count Lichnowskys ti-loirrain clearing up a misunderstanding. and denies tlio existence of the telegram. The paper's denial relates to Belgium. The London newspapers point, out that Sir Edward Grey's statement specifically related to the idea of securing France's neutrality in the event of a Russo-Genjian war. PRESS SPECIALS. •OROTESQIE" NEWS. LONDON.. Sept. S. Sir Henry Norman, through Marconi's new instrument, discovered Br Lonntnivs name attached to the German fabricated news for Americans. Leinanu is uoK known as the head n-.anipulator of the German Press Bureau service, which extends through Italy, Amsterdam, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and America. Grotesque deta'ls of the news sent are reaching England 'daily. INCREASE OF NAVY. I'ROPOSED BY REICHSTAG. AMSTERDAM. Sept. 8. A message received from Berlin states that tho Reichstag is intent on a programme c:" naval expansion, in. eluding the rapid construction of tliree iai go warships, two erasers, twelve torpedo d'visions, s : x airsli'p divisions, and n number of mine-layers and other craft, increas'ng l>y 100 per cent, the lighting value of the German fleet.