Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 93, 16 November 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

MOBILISATION SCHEME. It iV/ mi - :lr. - ii via. ' iiJiw mA NATION CONTROLLED. Iljlict If EMPIRE COES INTO BUSINESS'. ENGLAND UNDERESTIMATED. ' Press AssociatioD—Copyright, Austra lia§ and NiZ. Cable Association. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Amsterdam; November 15. German newspapers are full of the civilian mobilisation: scheme, and print highly-coloured pictures of a new Germany controlled from Groner’s Office, whence activity in ail industry by every citizen who can be will be directed. The Germans are being persuaded that their supreme organising genius will turn the scale in favoi- of victory and that they intend tP jthe world how a great Empirq.,qsn be run_ ; a,a,.a business \can # be diljooted to a single end, namely, in' the, The newspapers, ,yiew to stimulating the natipj^ HI recall Kitchener’s saying for En glands.“ The war only begin in 1916,” Germany had , underestimated the power of England, and must convert the Empire into a colossal munitions factory. There is some doubt as to whether compulsion will apply to women. It is understood that the food mobilisation scheme will allot a dietary in accord with the importance of the war work. *

The correspondent asked: “Does England want peace?” Count Apponyi: “There are peace parties in all countries, but 1 admit there is a strong war party in Engla ml and France.”

The correspondent: ,‘Cun President Wilson do southing ppw to bring the' belligerents together;?” Count Apponyi: “Necessarily the greatest Neutral must play an important part in international peace, but F do not think the physohological moment has arrived. Roumania must first he punished for treason.” CROWN PRINCE IN ALSACE. - j Press Association—Copyright, Austra, lian and N.Z. Cable Association London, November 15. It is officially announced at Berlin that the Crown Prince is leaving Verdun and taking the command in Alsace.

STRONG PEACE FEELER. «* AUSTRIAN COUNT’S OPINIONS. CHIEF BELLIGERENTS APPROACH COMMON GROUND. PLAYING-UP TO AMERICA. Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Budapest, November 14Count Apponyi, in an interview with a Berlin press' c'orrespondent, said: “We are getting near to peace. We. are sure it is on the way. We c!< not mean that it will come next week or next month, but the foundations are being laid. Viscount Grey’s and Chancellor- von Bethmann Hollweg’s speeches show that the two chief belligerents are getting closer, although they are still wide apart, and arc ap preaching a common ground, and win not? This common ground is tin. desire of all the Nations to have a: international agreement, Which would ensure the world’s 'peace f° l **' future. If such a guarantee be ar ranged, I do not think the bloodshed will have been in vain.