Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 75, 26 October 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

THE FALL OF CONSTANZA. GERMANS MAKE THE MOST OF IT. INTOXICATED WITH JOY. .._L—Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 25.. Germany appears to .have become intoxicated with the news of the fall of Constanza. ~• r The Kaiser ordered a holiday in all the schools and every village was be flagged-. Newspapers proclaim Roumania crashed and chastised for daring to defy Germany.

EVADING THE BLOCKADE. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association- . London, October 25. Mr Cur tin says that Germany continually evades the blockade, and is obviously importing fat by the presence of thousands of barrels at aer quaysides. There is no tea drinking, but the Germans are drinking vast quantities of cocoa and chocolate. The cattle stocks 'are four-fifths of those prior to the war, and pigs have diminished 75 per cent., owing to indiscriminate slaughterings in 1915. The authorities are now insisting upon universal -pig-breeding, and are posting rural notice that not to keep and fatten pigs is an act of treason to the Fatherland. Food rationing is badly organised, dearth and plenty alternating in different districts. The ticket system was arranged on the assumption of a speedy victory and the war finishing in 1915, which led to reckless consumption and increased prices. The system will probably be reorganised to meet the coming winter's distress.