Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 96, 20 November 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

'AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S HEALTH. Press Association—Copyright, Austin. liau and N.Z. Cable Association. ■ v Receive d 'l.lO j).in.) Amsterdam, November 19. Vienna announces that the Empsror Franz Josef had a slight relapse, and ( that ho is in a feverish condition. i GENERAL ITEMS. Owing to the pressure caused by the transport, of provisions and war material, general railway transport in . Germany lias been suspended for three ] clays. This lias weakened the Bourse, j Reports state that the Emperor i Franz Josef lias a serious cough, is very weak, and receives only two or three visitors daijy. The Vossiche Zeitung states that Franz .Josef will, on the anniversaiy ' of accession day (December 2) announce that in future he will exercise certain sovereign powers jointly with his heir-apparent. Field-Marshal von Hiudenburg, in ;i letter to Herr von Bethmann-Holl-|weg, says that Germany is facing aj terrible crisis, and that great changes are necessary to meet it. He denoun- ' (■e s the food department's failure to adequately feed the munition workers, the greed of the agrarians in retaining their products, and the sluggishness of the officials, who fail to realise that this is a life and death war. All important feature of the German reorganisation consists of a measure to obtain increased supplies of food for munition and industrial workers in the winter. Every private interest will be sacrificed to increased production, and munition workers will have the first call on foods, especially fats. The Times' Rotterdam correspondent states there is an authoritative report that Germany intends to attempt to complete the stoppage ot Dutch and British traffic, and compel Holland to divert the whole "of her exports to Germany.