SENSATIONAL STATEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 1, 3 January 1916, Page 7

SENSATIONAL STATEMENTS.

DEPRESSION AND SUICIDES GENEEAL IN GERMANY. FOOD SCARCITY AND DISTRESS IN HUNGARY. GERMAN PEACE OVERTURES REJECTED. EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEF'S CONDITION PRECARIOUS. L6NDON, Dec. Si. The Daily Mail's correspondent tit Petrograd states that neutral officers from Germany report that the depression and the number of suicides are abnormal. Three out of eleven German officers at one boundary -house committed suicide. It is everywhere being whispered that 100,000 men were killed during the fruiless autumn campaign in Russia. The dream of a separate peace has failed. The cost of living is causing much hunger amongst the poorer classes. The scarcity of food in Hungary is pitiable. The Government is taking over all stocks, and is establishing food tickets in. January, yet while the idea of the destrucion of Germany is prevalent, the people will fig-ht. Swiss stories relate that the German chemists are feevrishly working at the composition of new and diabolical gasses. Count von Bulow has made overtures to the representative of the Allies at Berne, stating the terms upon which Germany would negotiate for peace. The overtures were rejected. The Central News agent at Zurich states tciat the Emperor Franz Josef's physical an moral state has painfully impressed the Kaiser, who has sent a famous physician to prescribe for him.