REPORTED NAVAL BATTLE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2912, 26 October 1916, Page 5

REPORTED NAVAL BATTLE

SIGNS OF AN ENCOUNTER IN THE ARCTIC Aiulraliiui-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rcc. Ootobcr 25, 9 p 111) Christians, October 24. A Norwegian steamer reports a naval battlo in the Arctic, where many submarines wore observed. It is believed that eight Zeppelins, which. were seen off Stavanger yesterday, participated. GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLIES : THE LATEST OPINION. (The "Times.") (Rec. October 26, 1.5 a.m.) London, October 25. Mr. Curtin, the American correspondent, says that Germany continually evades the Allies' blockade. She is obviously importing fat by thousands of barrels to her quayside. There is no tea drinking. The Germans are' drinking cocoa and chocolate in vast . quantities. The cattle stocks arc four-iiftbs of the stocks held before the war; pigs have.diminished by 75 por cent., owing to their indiscriminate slaughtering in 1915. The authorities ar© now insisting on universal pig breeding, and posting rural notices that not to keep and fatten pigs is ail act of treason to the Fatherland. The food rationing is badly organised, dearth and plenty alternating in different, districts. The ticket system was arranged on the assumption of a speedy victory, and the war finishing in 1915, which led to reckless consumption and increased prices. The system will probably bo reorganised to meet the coming winter's distress. SPLENDID EFFORT BY SCHOOL CHILDREN Austnlinn-No-s- Zealand Cable Association. (Reo. October 25, 6.45 p.m.) London, October 24. Over four .million boys and girls in one month subscribed £15,000 to the .Tack Corn well Fund to endow a waid for disabled sailors.