Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 40, 22 May 1916, Page 8

Germany

AUSTRIAN FJN'ANGE. FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS, London, .May JO. ['roof of Austi\ ,'s liutincial straits is Forthcoming in inteivcpted messages from Vienna, to New i'ork, which show that Austria consented to hypothecate transfer fees in connection with real estate to seciire a fifteen million dollars loan. The negotiations failed. Count Burian is trying to make Relieve that New York bankers voluntarily offered the loan. BREAD FOR BRITISH PRISONERS. London, May 20. The Bureau do* Kcouris at Kerne is supplying 19.000 British p/isoners in Germany with daily consignments ol 6-1.00 21b loaves. Over a million loaves have been despatched. \ewspaper correspondents state that several Gorman towns are seriously considering schemes of communal lending. GERMAN MINISTER OF SUPPLIES.

Amsterdam, May 19. Hen- Waldon, President of Pomerani„ has been appointed German Mmiste',. of Supplies, with ruthless powers as. food dietntor. MOVEMENTS OF THE KASSER. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, -May 21. Tlie Kaiser has arrived at Potsdam to settle the Ministerial crisis, and then goe., to the Russian front. EFFECT OF BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC. TRADE WITH GERMANY CEASING (Received 9.G a.in J Copenhagen, May 21. The Swedisli export of iron to Germany ami also the importation of German coal has ceased. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. RE-BUILOINC THE MERCHANT FLEET. SUGGESTED MINISTRY OF COMMERCE. WATCHING THE ALLIES' POSTWAR MEASURES. (Recoired 9.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, May 21. J

HeiT Richer, Under-Secretary of j the Interior, announced in the Reich- j stag that a large sum would bo Tivail- j able after tlio war for "rebuilding the merchant fleet. Something in that direction had already been done. Workmen from the Imperial shipyards would he spared for the purpose as far as possible. Hei'f Stresmann (Nationalist-Lib-eral) urged the creation of an Imperial Ministry of Commerce. Calamity to Germany's economic life had been prevented solely by the quick successes of her armies in opening Vast districts producing raw materials and by German science in providing substitutes. "Therefore," he added, "to-dny, since the difficulty lias been overcome, wo nm safely admit thatan Imperial Ministry of Commerce would closely watch our enemies' post-war measures. Who would ever have believed that England would adopt Compulsory Service 1 ;' She was proceeding with the greatest recklessness, regardless of the consequences. She knows no half-measures m scruples or sentimentalities, political or j economic; henceforth everyone, even the German representatives abroad, should work as commercial agents. Goods, not money, should be sent abroad to improve the rate of the j German exchanges."