Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 9 October 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

GERMANY'S FOREICN POLICY. DIFFERENCES IN THE REICHSTAG. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received \).ir> a.m.) Amsterdam, October 8. Sharp differences of opinion on the Foreign Policy have arisen in the Reichstag's Grand Committee. Dr. Heckscher, representing the Radicals has resigned, and now it is suggested ithat the Committee shouM introduce a resolution affecting tinforeign policy which the Reichsta : might accept or reject.

NEW GERMAN WAR LOAN. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 8. A Berlin official telegram states that the war loan realised Q2S£ millions. QUEER FINANCE METHODS. PAPER MONEY FOR LOAN. Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, October 8.

Newspapers, point out that the apparent success of the German war loan was due to the Government lending people large amounts of money, which the people lend them back. Many war-loan banks -were specially established to lend paper money for sub-. scription to the loan on all manner of security, including furniture. The trouble will begin when the people before .the end of the war or after the war demand the conversion of the paper into cash. » Tl'ie Weekly Despatch's Rotterdam correspondent states that iho German Government's practice of deducting sums from the wages of munitions workers and applying it to the war loan recently led to a strike and a serious riot, which the Brunswick cavalry were summoned to quell.

HINDENBURC SUPPORTS HOLLWEC. Press Association —Copyright. Published in "The, Times." (Received 9.45 a.m.) New York, October 8. The Times' Berlin correspondent states that Geenral Hindenburg is supporting Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg in oppoistion to the party advocating ruthless submarining.

THE SUBMARINE POLICY.

HOLLWEG NOT WANTED.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. Amsterdam, October G. . , The agitation in, Germany for a rejturii to> drastid. submarine policy is .dailv bec'ylijing . stronger. Newspapers Idoqiajf* $W German, sluml.! ignore Ainor|p#rhe Cham>']lm's supporters are #a%nailv dwhnHin;;. Tin newspapers' openly demaiN! ;! ;; l Admiral von Tirpitz should replace Herr von Bethmann-Hollwcg as Chancellor. It is expected the Central Party will shortly join the Chancellor's antagonists.

Negotiations in the Reichstag secret committee with all parties concerning submarine warfare are proceeding. • .

GENERAL ITEMS

t'ress Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Amsterdam, October 7. The Neuse Nacrichten .states that the German food problem during the winter will be very terrible to solve. It is still hoped that there will not bo starvation, generally speaKing. A paper at Dresden published the latest portrait of the Kaiser, depicting him as looking tired, aged, and almost an invalid. The publication ,vas stopped and tho police are searching for copies, which are selling secretly at ten marks. Herr Harden's paper, the Zukunft, has been suppressed. Count von Doon, captain oi' the Moewe, who has been commanding a battalion of infantry in Franco, has been killed, Berne, October 7. Austro-Hungary is calling up fifteen classes hitherto exempt from military service. Many thousands, formerly rejected as totally unfit, have joined their regiments. Men between 15 and 50 have been drafted into auxiliary services, but have been notified that sooner or later they may iave to be employed on active service it the front. All men not actually srippled, up to 11 years of age, are to be sent to the front. The exodus :>f middle-aged married men has caused widespread gloom. Semi-official: The Berlin war sub;criptions arc estimated at live hundred million sterling.