AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 April 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

JOFFRE AND VIVIANI IN AMERICA

Received 9.25,

WASHINGTON, April 21.

Field-Marshall Joft’re and M. Viviani, two members of the French Commission, have arrived here.

GERMANY’S INTERNAL TROUBLES.

GOVERNMENT THREATENS THE STRIKERS. Received 11.35. ZURICH, April 24. The German Government has warned strikers in Berlin, Spandau, Lcipsig, Chemnitz, Stettin, Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel, and Essen industrial districts on the Rhine and Westphalia that they will be sent to the front unless they returned to work by the 23rd. The military have assumed control of the factories.

TREACHEROUS GREECE. THE SITUATION GRAVE. ATHENS, April 23. The position in Greece is grave, but the incapacity of Royal regime is rapidly leading the situation wherein a final solution will be reached. The Lambros Government has not carried out the Allies’ demands, though apparently attempting to do so. Many rifles have still not been delivered to the Allies. No stops have been taken to turn out the German officers, who continue to frequent the palace clandestinely. Gorman agents are everywhere in Thessaly, organising irregular bands, which maintain communications with Albania and frequently raid the communications of the French troops. The French have full proof that regular Greek army officers are organising irregulars. When the Allies laid the facts, including the names of the officers before the Greek Government, Lambros replied that the officers were above suspicion and their character could not be questioned.

COMPARISONS. STATE OF GERMANS AND DUTCH HANS WELL FED, FRITZ HALFSTARVED.

An American states that the contrast between the well-fed Dutch frontier guardsmen and the half-starved German guards is striking. He asked a German why he had not deserted. The German replied that he would have deserted ages ago but for having a wife and seven children. Men with 10 days ’ leave from the front are now compelled to work for seven days at agriculture, munitions, or the railways. An Englishwoman describes the condition of one of the most important towns as appalling. Business is suspended. She thinks that tire food will last until next winter* though the privations of . the working-classes are severe, and there have been numerous eases of collapse. Mussels are largely used for food, made into brawn and sausages. Of butter there is none. No one in Germany believes that the country will benefit. Intelligent people foresee bankruptcy and destitution. It is commonly said that Germany will gain the victory, but that England will win the war.

WAR NOTES 10,000,000 HORSES KILLED. FAMINE AFTER THE WAR. That the next ten years will see the greatest demand for horses the world has even known is the opinion of Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the Pcrchcron Society of America. His belief is based on the unprecedented destruction of horses in the great war of Europe, which some authorities estimate as high as .10,000,000. America alone has lost 1,000,000 horses and mules since the outbreak of hostilities. France, England, Germany,, and Austria, as well as all the other countries in Europe must have been stripped of available animals for military purposes, Russia alone having a supply sufficient to meet Ixcr own need.

.When the war is over, and the men under arms return to agriculture and industry every country in Europe will be short of horses unless the market experts are much mistaken. They expect to see hundreds of thousands exported from the United States after peace is restored. Breeders who have ceased to raise horses in expectation that motor vehicles are going to supplant them in nearly all lines of work will soon see the mistake they have made, Mr Dinsmore declares. "It takes time to make headway in the horse business," he says. "Five years are required to grow a horse of marketable ago. At best one should not expect more than two foals from three mares, on an average, per year. Moreover, not more than 10 per cent, of our farmers are raising any colts. Two or three years hence the others are going to wake up only to learn that a great opportunity has passed.”