IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 9

IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY

PRISONERS OF WAR AT FARM LABOUR

750,000 EMPLOYED

Amsterdam, February 22;.. General von Greener . (Imperial Organiser) informed .-the Reichstag Committee that three-quarters of a million prisoners of war are employed as farm labourers, and their number will be' increased, and the garrisons of the occupied territories will be employed.on. the '■ : . A GLOOMY. REPORT. .. ■ "Rotterdam, February 22. • ■ Dr. von Schorlemer, Prussian Minister of Agriculture, in a gloomy report to the Prussian Chamber, said ho feared that potato and sugar planting had still further decreased. The supply of seed potatoes had been reduced because much were used as food.—Aus.-NvZ, Cable Assn. ■ ■ ITALIAN SUPPLIES VIA SWITZERLAND. ;.. - Rome, February 22.. > Italy is forbidding the export of oranges to Switzerland, owing to quantities reaching the enemy. Italy, has purchased the whole . Siciliau crop, which is being sent to the Allied countries, Salonika, Mesopotamia, and 'Egypt.—Aus.-N:Z. Cable Assn. BIG EXPLOSION AT DRESDEN" ■ SEVERAL THOUSANDS KILLED. Chrlstiania, February 22. A Norwegian, who has returned from Germany,, relates, an .extraordinary story of explosions in enormous munition works at Dresden, which hitherto has been suppressed. He says the ex* plosion occurred on December -28. Thirty thousand workers were employed, including two thousand soldiers, and several thousand were killed. The Kaiser visited the scene tho following day.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INTERNECINE STRIFE. Amsterdam, February 22. ; . According to the "Maestricht News," Prussian soldiers fought with firearms at Beverloo ' Camp, near Hasselt. [ Thirty-two jvere killed and two hundred wounded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OFFICER PRISONERS EXPOSED TO AIR RAIDS. : -/ Berne, February 22. ' Germany has placed a large number. of distinguished British and French of-; fleers in an exposed concentration camp' at Karlsruhe, as a guarantee against air raids.—The "Times." -•-..;