GERMANY'S 1917 HARVEST
BLEAR" DEPICTED. (Rec. May 11, 8.5 p.m.) Berne, May 11. A wireless message states -that. Herr Hein (Leader of the Agrarians in the Bavarian Chamber), in a speech at Neustadt, said, that 70 per cent, of tho malo population of 2837 Bavarian villages, above the ago of soventeen, wore serving hi tho army. Thirty-seven per cent, of the farms t were without "male labourers. Tho harvest of 1916 was tho worst on record, owing primarily to the lack of labour. A similar disaster threatened the 1917 harvest for tiic same reason.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3082, 12 May 1917, Page 9
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96GERMANY'S 1917 HARVEST Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3082, 12 May 1917, Page 9
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