Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 19 December 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

ROUMANIAN WHEAT SUPPLIES. I Press Association—Copyright, Austra* ; lian and N.Z. Cable Association. Copenhagen, December 18. • Dr. Batocki, who is attending the i Austro-Hungarian food conference at Budapest, stated that 2*5,000,000 hectolitres of grain, Including 21,000,000 of wheat, had been captured from Roumania. These supplies would assure Germany and Austria till the harvest. GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. London, December 18. A German evening official communique states: There is moderate fighting on the West and East. The army of the Dobrudja gained ground northwards. German seaplanes bombed the Russian warships at Suliu-a. THE GERMAN HARVEST. FOOD SHORTAGE ACUTE. WHERE THE BLOCKADE SCORES 'Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, December 18. The completion of the German harvest reveals a serious situation. The potato crop yielded twenty million tons, compared to fifty million •tons in 191 b. The. shortage equals 1 five million tons in cereals, but as the I cereal harvest had mert-ased 81 million tons, a deficit equivalent to I.J----j million remains. Barley is oeing used instead of potatoes in bread-making. The authorities hope that a milium tons of barley will be obtained in Hocmania. Germany is promised ;,i----creased meat rations in Febiuaiy, this being owing to the impossibility of feeding the stock, which will he 'killed off. Four hundred thousand I residents in Berlin feed at the munit cipal food centres daily.

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' Hi?; IF THE WAR ENDS IN APRIL. Press Association—Copyright, Austra. lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Berlin, December 18. The Frankfurter Post states that in the event of the war ending in April, Germany will be compelled to raise 650 million pounds annually to meet the current expenditure and interest on loans.