HUNGER PINCH IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3025, 12 March 1917, Page 5

HUNGER PINCH IN GERMANY

PROBABLY AT ITS WORST NOW (Rec. March 11, 5.6 p.m.) London, March 10. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" Amsterdam' correspondent says that while the hunger pinch in Germany is probably; at its worst, it would bo easy to exag'i gerato its importance. Hunger riots' and other manifestations will nob change the authorities' policy, which places tho army first,, the economicfuturo second, and wonien .and children, last or nowhere. Germany is still ableto pile up foodstuffs for the army.—• Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DEMENTED FARENIS - SUICIDES THROUGH DISTRESS (Hoc. March 11, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, March 10. Socialist Kofer's speech has been published in "Vorwaerts," and has created a sensation. He assarted that suicides were duo to the distress iticreasing. Parents became demented 1 ' because food was unprocurable, and sometimes killed their children, and added: "The Junkers are to blanie, not tho so-called wicked English."— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. fqotweaTceinsus (Rec. March 11, 5.5 p.m.) The Hague, March 9. Germany is making a census o£ boots, shoes, and sandals.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SEVERE MEASURES NECESSARY. Rotterdam, March 9. The Prussian Eood Commissioner, in a. speech in Parliament, warned the peoplo that they faced a graver situation than, over before. Jfc would be necessary to take specially difficult steps and unusually sovero measures to enable the country to hold out an* other year. Thri Government's regulations must be strictly followed.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.