GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 2 November 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

GERMAN FOOD SHORTAGE.

INTERNAL CONDITIONS SERIOUS

NEW YORK, Oct. 30. A cable to the Tribune by a neutral returned from Germany states that the internal conditions are more serious than the world knows. The recent riots in Berlin have been ugly manifestations of the spirit of the people. State food monopoly is surely coming. The authorities are delaying it owing to the alarm it would cause. The papers contain nothing but reports of great victories. The people are suspicious of the official news, and are asking: If these victories are being achieved, why is the war continuing and the Allies refusing to talk peace.

SEVERE RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED. (Rec. 2.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Oct. 30. The German Federal Council has decreed that butchers must not sell raw or cooked meat on Tuesdays and Fridays. Restaurants must not serve meat, venison, poultry, ilsh, or dishes cooked with lard, bacon, and dripping, on Mondays and Thursdays. Pork must not be sold on Saturdays. There is no prohibition of meat in private houses, as the Council expects the well-to-do to perform their duty to the Fatherland and facilitate the more regular distribution of. foodstuffs containing fat. AMMUNITION STORE BLOWN UP. (Rec. 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 30.

A British communique states: Near Anafarta our artillery exploded an artillery ammunitioon store. There has been artillery and handgrenade fighting near Ariburnu and at Seddul Bahr.

BRITISH CASUALTIES. NEARLY HALF A MILLION. 101,054 KILLED. LONDON, Oct. 30. Mr. Asquith stated that the casualties to the 9th in the western area were: — KILLED. Officers 4,401 Men 63,059 WOUNDED. Officers 9,109 Men 225,716 MISSING). Officers 1,707 Men 01,234 TOTAL IN ALL FIELDS. KILLED. Officers 0.000 Men 94,994 WOUNDED. Officers 12.633 Men 304,832 MISSING. Officers 2,000 Men 72,177

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, |

WILSON AGAIN A CANDIDATE.

WASHINGTON, October 31.

President Wilson has announced hlat intention of againcontesting the Presu. dency at next election.

BRITISH WOUNDED. IN HOSPITAL AT PALERMO. (Reed 11.5 a.m.) ROME, October 31. Eight thousand British woundet? from the Dardanelles are shortly ar*riving at Palermo, where there are th® fullest hospital preparations.