GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1918, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN

A DF.ItI.IX DEMONSTRATION. • [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received This Day at 1.20 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 26. A remarkable demonstration in the poor quarters of Berlin followed a report that the military age limit "would shortly he raised. Excited crowds assembled in the streets, but dissolved on the appearance of the police. Frequenters of a certain Cafe revenged themselves by throwing pictures of the Kaiser, Crown Prince, and Ilindenburg and Ludendorft’ from the windows where they wore trampled on the ground. This example was imitated by a large number of householders.

GERMAN BIRTH RATE. | NEW YORK, Aug. 26. i Doctor Custom, of the University or | Geneva, Switzerland, writing in the “ New York Medical Journal,” says the German birth rate has fallen ofl 40 per cent aud the infantile death rate is 50 per cent higher than in England. 1 GERMAN VIEW OF LORD CECIL’S SPEECH. ; (Received This Day at 11.2;). a.m. LONDON, August 26. The “North German Gazette” says Lord Cecil considers Dr Solf’s speech as a progress towards pence but the peace programme as developed by Lord Cecil would result in depriving Germany of her colonies, and is preparing her for complete defeat. Lord Cecil is mistaken in supporting Dr Solf’s progress lies iin that direction. W o would never tolerate the curtailment •of our world and jioitiJeal rights. i