BREAD RIOTS IN VIENNA.
EFFECTS OF THE BLOCKADE. VENICH, March 19. Renewed bread riots have occurred at Vienna. Bakers are unable to supply the quantity prescribed by Government. The blockade has already increased the price of ccftee by 20 per cent, COMPENSATION ~TO SHIPPERS, LONDON, March 19. An agreement has been reached between the Admiralty and British companies whose vessels have been requisitioned in Australia. It has been decided that freights shall be 3/ a ton above Blue Book rates for the period of the war. Shipowners regard the rates as a compromise. They consider that had they chosen they could have made out a strong case for bettor terms. EAST PRUSSIAN AGRICULTURE. IN A DESPERATE CONDITION. COPENHAGEN, March 19. Residents or Ea»t Prussia declare that the Russians destroyed eighty thousand houses, and that agriculture i 3 in an absolutely desperate condition, scarcely 0000 out of 100,000 hcj’ses being left.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 168, 20 March 1915, Page 5
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