Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Enormous Siege Guns and Huge Zeppelin Fleet to Face English [ARTICLE]

Enormous Siege Guns and Huge Zeppelin Fleet to Face English

-x Amsterdam, Oct. 13.—(Correspondence of the Associated Press)—Reports are current in Berlin that the Krupps have completed some enormously heavy guns of a calibre and range never before attempted and that a large fleet of Zeppelins, according to some reports numbering 80 or more, is being collected near Kiel, awaiting a favorable opportunity to sail for England, according to the statements of a British newspaperman Who has just returned from Berlin, to Amsterdam. Artillery officers assured this correspondent that the new Krupp guns have a rapge of 25 miles, and probably are destined for use at some channel port in event the Germans secure a foothold there. He also says that the aeroplane factories in Germany are working day and night supplying machines and that 200 aviators are qualifying for military service each week. “The English aretaore hated than either the French or Russians,” he said. ‘The German Would rather capture one Englishman than twenty of the others. In Germany, England is blamed for it, rightly or wrongly. She is accused of being at the bottom of this war. Neither officers nor men of the German army seem to have much regard for the English army as a fighting machine, biit they freely admire the pluck of the British officers and the rapid range-finding abilities of British artillery. . “Judging from what I saw in Berlin, that city holds at this moment another five or six army corps of able-bodied young mien attached Cither to ,the first or second reserve or to the landsturm. The same pro-

I portionately may be said of all the other German cities. Everywhere I was struck by the boundless enthusiasm for war. It is true that all the news is subjected bo a severe censorship, and therefore the people do not know other than that they are winning all along the line Sortie more sober minds in Germany admit that they will get hard knocks sonje time and somewhere, but they have no doubt Germany will win. The prevalent opinion is that in view of the amount of German blood spilled in Belgium that country inevitably will cease to exist except as a part of the German empire. Holland 'is' regarded as a negligible quantity and it is taken for granted that the low countries.will, of their own accord, become one of the German bundestaaten. “While it is true that there have been many commercial failures, in spite of this fact 'business is going on as usual, and In Berlin there are no unemployed crowding the streets. Food is cheap and plentiful and it is asserted that there is a sufficient stock on hand for at least three years. So far as I can judge, Germany Is far from being V>n the knee,’ and we will need every available man to down an enemy who is so determined and whose enthusiasm borders on fanaticism.” An American resident of Berlin Sho also has just arrived in Amerdam, says it is impossible for the people in Germany to estimate the total German casualties. The lists published in Berlin give the losses of the Prussian army only, while the losses of the Bavarians, the Saxons and the Wuertemburgers are published only in those kingdoms.