INTERESTING NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 23, 28 January 1916, Page 2

INTERESTING NEWS.

GERMANY’S NEW FOOD DISCOVERY. Germany -has a new food, discovered by a soldier in her trendies, which she believes will be a powerful ally ®i§,kinst famine. Had the amazing 1 sto'ry of its discovery appeared in any other publication than the Chemiker Zeitung, regarded by many scientists as the Ifeading organ, of chemistry in t-he world, it would be received with a shrug of incredulity. The last number of this journal, which was recently received by chemists in New York, tells of the finding of a new microbe which changes sugar to fat, and produces a substance of high nutritive value which is readily assimilated The organism supplements the work of another used in transforming sugar inte albumen By these two agents, according to German science, the. abundant crop of beet sugar now in Germany can readily be transformed into vast quantities of new foods which will supplement the dwindling stores of natural products. As the children of Israel were fid by manna in the wilderness and the prophet of old was nourished by th e black winged ravens, so the microbes will now go to the aid of the beleagu'red Fatherland as servants of that chemistry which made her famous 1 In Germany this new means of utilising her red harvest is regarded as having been shown by an over-ruling Providence

I COUNT TISZA. HUNG ARIA’S STRONG MAN. Tb 3 statement of Count Tisza at the closing of the Hungarian Parliament that the time had come for deeds and not words was typical of the man. H e is regarded as the strong man of Hungary, and many say that lie is the coming man in the wider sphere of international politics as far as the Dual Monarchy is concerned. The Count comes of a fine family. For 15 years his father, Count Koloman Tisza, ruled Hungary with a strong hand, and the son will be found no less resolute. A representative of a London paper interviewed the Hungarian Premier not long ago, and was obviously impressed by him. “Count Tisza,” he wrote “is a man of striking individuality and strong character. He is a Calvinist and a sincerely religious man. The people of Hungary, or a section of theta; consider that he is a providential man, a man with a mission guided by faith. His principles are somewhat Cromwellian. He has struck the imagination of a large section of the Magyar people, who look upon him as a modern Bayard.”

The interviewer described the garian Ifeader as being of medium stature. well built, with a dark complexion. He speaks English well, has often visited Great Britain, and admits that he follows British affairs with close interest. The Count is a strove advocate of Anglo-German friendship, but contends that England can do more to preserve the peace of Europe by maintaining a policy of splendid isolation than by joining either of the groups on the Continent.