Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 59, 6 October 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

TRUCE WITH BRITAIN URGED

RIOTING IN SEVERAL CENTRES.

Press Association—Copyright, Austrafiaii and N.Z. Cable Association London, October o. The Daily Telegraph is in possession of information gained from leliable sources a s to the conditions .of life in Germany being serious. Meetings are being held in many places urging a speedy peace. A member of the Reichstag at on« meeting urged a truce with England, even at the sacrifice of some of Germany's chief ambitions. Formidable rioting'has taken place

in several centres. The Cologne Gazette even prophesies a gloomy future for Germany.

BOHEMIANS MUTINY. London, October 4. The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent states that the Austrian Government's difficulty in maintaining loyalty among the Bohemian troops is increasing. There are frequent reports of mutinies and wholesale executions. It is rumored that Bohemian regiments were destroyed by exposure on the Russian front owing to being unprotected, and to their sometimes being abandoned for days without provisions.

NO AMERICAN SYMPATHY,, CROWN PRINCE'S FAILURE. Press Association —Copyright. Published, in "The Times." (Received 12.5 p.m.) London, October 5. A correspondent in New York states that the German Crown Prince 'a tearful attempt to besiege American sympathies utterly failed to produce * single emotion excepting ..scorn. The result must undoubtedly 'be attributed to Mr Lloyd George's; ; : admira%time interview. Since beginning of the war, no utterance by a member of the cabinet has received greater sympathy. -

THE PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS. ENORMOUS INCREASES. Press Association—Copyright. Published m "The Times." (Received 12.5 p.m.) London, October 5. The German Statistical Department publishes figures showing that, compared to April. iyoß.r!he'price of fish in April, 1916, had increa,se.d ,390 m\ cent, potatoes 236 per TSeWt 1 ./ arid ?gg.s' 248 per cent. &.?'■%] THE SHORTAGE OF PETROL. Pirtss Association—Copyright. Reuter's Telegrams (Received 12.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, October 5. Thb Berliner Tageblatt dwells on the growing difficulties arising out ot the shortages of petrol. Since tho war with Roumsnia, the Governme.it bad restricted the supplies to lighting purposes, considering the utilising of more daylight by the abolition of workers tho midday intervals.