ABOUT THE ENEMY

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16261, 11 July 1918, Page 7

ABOUT THE ENEMY

HERR VON ICUHLMANN RESIGNS,

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Reut-ci'a Telegrams.) (Received July 10th. 11.15 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 9. The Wolff tress Bureau reports that the Kaiser l>.as accepted Herr von Kuhlmann's resignation. Herr Hintze, German Ambassador at Christiania, is mentioned ab his successor.

GERMANY'S FOOD PROBLEM. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter'fl Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, July . 9. Herr von Waldow, the Food Minister, in a gloomy speech in the lleichstag, referring to tho necessity to introduce a meatless week monthly, during August, September, and October, saia that the food stocks were far below necessities. Ho feared that the difficulties would continue for a long time. The speech was constantly interrupted. A Socialist member, Herr Wels, protested against meatless weeks and warned the .Government that the people would not tolerate greater suffering than they were now enduring. Herr Wurt, an Independent Socialist, said the belief that Germany could feed herself was erroneous, and was one of the contributory causes of the war. He protested against the recent anti-strike measures at Warnburg, when storm tronps, with gas masks and machineguns intimidated the workers. A Socialist, Herr Weaes, said that certain circles, including the Kaiser, had no idea of the misery of the masses, 47 per cent, of whom earned under four marks daily. The shortening of the war would bo a greater economic gain than to conquer any province. In the Reichstag the War Minister stated that Germany had accepted the conditions by which exchanged English, French anct German war prisoner# should not be re-employed.

A ROYAL DIVORCE

(Australian and N.Z Cable Association.)

LONDON, July 8. The "Daily Telegraph's'' Milan correspondent states that Milan papers allege that divorce proceedings between the Emperor Karl and the Empress Zita are imminent. Her opposition to the bombardment of Italian towns is 60 strong that it produced a real difference with Karl.

The correspondent adds, that a disgraceful military clique is largely responsible for tho allegations, being anxious to attribute the failure of the Piave ojfensivo to the fact that Vonice was not first bombarded and razed to the ground by the guns of the Austrian warships. In fact, the order was given to the Austrian fleot earlier to steam for an Italian port in tho Adriatic and raze it to the ground as a preliminary to the Piave offensive, but Rizzo's feat averted the bombardment.

THE SUBMARINE WAR

SEARCH OF HOSPITAL SHIPS

Q3y Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright

(Reuter's Telegrams.)

LONDON, July 8. In the House of Commons, Dr. T. J. Macnamara, Under-Secretary to the Admiralty, itated that German submarines on several occasions exercised the right of searching hospital ships in order to see that they were complying with The Hague Convention. He emphasised that Britain had never broken th-3 letter or spirit of the Convention, and he believed the same was true regardinz the Allies.

(United Service.) LONDON, July 9.

In the House of Commons, replying to a question, Mr Bonar Law sai3 that ho did not think the matter of demanding the surrender of enemy merchant ships equivalent to the tonnage submarined could be discussed usefully at this stage of the war.