GERMANY IN HER MIGHT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 5

GERMANY IN HER MIGHT.

HUGE ARMY MANOEUVRES. SCENE OF FORMER TRIUMPHS. EXPERIMENTS WITH AEROPLANES. [UNITED PUE3B ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.! » (Received vSept. 11, 11.40 p.m.) BERLIN, Sept. 11. One hundred and ten thousand soldiers are partaking in the manoeuvres beginning. to-day, and the Kaiser has ■* % C it A*Prince Fredrick’ Leopold *of Prussia will command one army and Field Marshal Von der Goltz. the other. The scene of the manoeuvres will lx> the' forest country round Mechlenberg, on the Pomeranian border, and it includes a- chain of lakes where Murst isolated and overwhelmed the retreating Prussians in 1806. Supplies will be delivered in five-ton motor lorries travelling at twenty miles an hour. Four aeroplanes will be attached to each army, each manned by a pilot and an observer. A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. FRENCH AND MOORISH SOLDIERS KILLED. (Received Sept. IF, 9.50 p.m.) TANGIER, Sept. 11. While gunpowder from Fort Rabat was being thrown into the sea a cartload exploded. A French officer and two artillerymen, as well as nine Moorish soldiers, were killed. “GERMANY ON THE RUN” A GRAVE FINANCIAL PANIC. HEAVY WITHDRAWALS OF FOREIGN MONEY. (Received Sept. 12, 1 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. The “Daily Graphic’s” Paris correspondent states that the Russian Government is withdrawing the money of the last loan still deposited in Berlin, as all the French and much of the British money is being called in. The Berlin settlement at the end of this month promises to be disastrous. French financiers believe that they have Germany on the run, and _ that the best means to prevent a conflict is through their pockets. The “Graphic” adds that German, houses are finding difficulty in getting paper accepted for enormous purchases of grain. “SELL AT ANY PRICE.” SERIOUS. DROP IN SHARES. BERLIN, Sept. 11. News of the Bourse panic spread to the provinces, and the brokers received shoals of telegrams containing instructions to sell at any price. Bank and financial shares fell three per centum, and mine shares seven per centum. . . . Meanwhile the run on the municipal savings banks is continued, and manv small tradesmen demand the return or their money without the customary three days’ notice. THE COUNTER PROPOSALS. “SERIOUS AND MINUTE EXAMINATION.” PARIS. Sept. 11. Semi-official German counter proposals have been received. . . They raise questions of principle _ requiring serious and minute examination . SPY SCARE IN ENGLAND. EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS BEING TAKEN. LONDON, Sept. 10. Bluejackets, armed with ball cartridges are guarding the dock gates_ at Barrow, for the purpose of preventing the water being let out, wherebv the warships might be grounded and damaged. The precautions are due to the alleged presence of foreign spies. The police protecting Vickers, Sons, and Maxim's works have been reinforced. “ WHEN WE SHALL FIGHT.” A GERMAN ON~THE SITUATION. Mr. Alan Ostler, the “Daily Express” correspondent in Morocco, who was expelled by the Moors several weeks ago, wrote from Mogador to his paper on Ju'ly 12 as follows: “I overheard to-day a conversation between a French Custom-house official and a German trader, which is admirably expressive of the attitudes of the different races: “Said the Frenchman: “It is not French opposition that you have to fear, my friend. For ns, what do we care if Germany gets a finger in the pie? Nothing. It is nothing to us. But with England—do yon think she will allow Germany to seize a port on the Atlantic?’ “ ‘Yes,’ remarked the Teuton stolidly.’ . , “ ‘But, my dear sir,,, it is absurd. The Frenchman became wildly vesticulative. ‘Consider, now. The English have stopped your attempts everywhere —not because they fear the growth of your trade, but because they cannot afford to let’Germany have a seaport. Is it not so ?* “ ‘Yes.’ “ ‘Well, then, they will not let you have Agadir.’ “ ‘We shall have Agadir.’ “ ‘Then you will be made to pay a heavy price.’ “ ‘We will pay.’ “ ‘But —but; —it will mean war. Y’ou will have to fight—to fight both France and England, perhaps.’ “The German smiled slightly and brushed his moustache upwards. He answered briefly: “ ‘Then we shall fight.’ ”