GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1920, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN.

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] A BIG EXPLOSION.

BERLIN, April 11. A tremendous explosion wrecked an. army supplies factory near Ivoeningsburg. It is believed there are many victims. The residential suburbs of Ivoeningsburg are devastated, and -w thousands of windows were smashed.

BIG MUNITIONS EXPLOSION. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, April 11. A munitions dump at Rotenstein, near Konigsberg, was blown up. Thirty explosions occurred, and two hundred wounded persons have already been rescued. There are many dead, but the number is unknown, owing to the danger of approaching the dump. FOOD FOR GERMANS. LONDON, April 11. The American Society of Friends is making plans to provide daily" food for 100,000 to 150,000 mothers and children in Germany next month. This is assured by signatures to a twenty-five million guilders contract at the Hague for the purchase of foodstuffs for Germany.

PAYING THEi PRICE. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aprils 11. The “Daily Chronicle” Berlin correspondent states: food supplies are worse than in 1919. Prices of imported foods have increased threefold. Tuberculosis among children lias trebled during the past few months. Statistics compiled by neutrals show twenty nine thousand out of 475 ' thousand Berlin children are suffering from tuberculosis; seventy seven thousand from various diesases due to under feeding and one hundred thousand are unfit to receive instructions owing to under feeding. Figures for forty-three large towns show two hundred thou sand children are suffering from tuberculosis and 860 thousand are badly underfed.

' LEVYING TOLL. (Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent states Hoeltz- continues his picturesque career of levying tolls upon war profiteers" to the extent of 50,000 to 100,000 marks.