STARVATION AND PEACE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 225, 10 November 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

STARVATION AND PEACE.

An American journalist has stated that lho German people are getting thinner as a result of the war. According to Court Karolyi's, the cost t living in Austria for a family of five h.i.s increased by 218 per cent., as compared with an increase of 95 per cent, in Germany. At this rato the Austrians must be very much thinner than the German?. Count Karolyi's -peech is evidently intended to appeal to the s\mpathies of tlie people of the I nited States ut America, and to tcrward the campaign of peaea which is now being pushed so vigorously by enemy agens in th« country. Thero is probably a much greater significance in this unofficul' peace talk now than thero was six months ago, but the desire to enlist the sympathy and aid of neutrals against the continuance ot the tightened British blocks do is still noticeabh in many of tho enemy peace utterances. Count Karolyi seems to bo as angry with Germany as ha is with Great Britain on this subject of national starvation; and, if his figures are correct, Austria would certainly appear to have some cause for complaint against her ally. Tho experience of the Belgi.ins and ot the Poles has shoTn that Germany has never missed an opportunity of filling her own larder at the expense of somebody else. The spoils of conquest have invariably gone to Germany, and Austria has li-cd to be content with tho crumbs. 'Should ever t< t Britisa blockade conquer us/" said General von llcseler, the German military governor in Warsaw, to a prominent Fole, "you will not seo it; you will be dead, all ot you, long before that." The systematic starvation of the Poles which followed in order that foodst.iffs from Poland should be poured mta Germany proved that these were no idle- words.