PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 April 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

ANOTHER PEACE KITE! Received 10.10. LONDON, April 27. The Daily Mail reports rumours from The Hague, Berne, aud Amsterdam which suggest that the Germans and their allies ar e preparing another peace kite. BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM DANGER OF FAMINE.

FOOD TICKETS IMPERATIVE,

PIRATES' MAXIMUM EFFORTS,

LONDON, April 2G,

The food situation is undeniably grave, and there is danger of famine conditions unless the consumption bo immediately curtailed. The public is being prepared to expect privations in the near future. The general opinion is that food tickets are imperative. The enemy is now reaching his maximum efforts to starve the Allies, and all the Austro-German submarines, with the exception of those needed for defence, are engaged on the routes. There is little indication of a reduction of the danger during the summer, when the long daylight is favourable to submarines.

COMPULSORY RATIONING IN±j VITAELE.

POSITION VERY GRAVE,

“WE MUST EAT LESS FOOD.”

Received 8.45

LONDON, April 27

The impression lias become general that compulsory rationing will become inevitable. The six or eight weeks ’ grace promised by Lord Davenport is

merely the time necessary to establish the intricate administration.

The Daily News states; We know that the facts relative to the submarine danger fare being kept from the general public for national reasons. These facts arc of the gravest moment to the safety of the Empire, and warrant a statement. We are at the supreme crisis of the war, and must eat less food.

GERMAN DESTROYER RAID

RAMSGATE BOMBARDED,

TRIFLING DAMAGE DONE,

Received 10.3 a.m

LONDON, April 27

The High Commissioner cables: The Admiralty reports that last night several enemy destroyers opened lire on Ramsgate. The lire was immediately returned and the enemy were driven off after firing a large number of rounds.

In the raid two were killed and three injured, 20 houses and stables were damaged, and a horse killed. The enemy projectiles mostly fell in open country. LATER PARTICULARS. Received 8. 35 a.m. LONDON, April 27. Shrieking shells awakened Ramsgate at 1.15 this morning, followed by scattered explosions. The attack came without warning. The whole place was darkened in acerdance with the rigid rule, when the whole East ; Coast was suddenly lit up with vivid star shells and the sky was illumined, heavy firing immediately following. The attack lasted for ten minutes, when it is estimated that sixty shells fell, accompanied by a constant stream of star shells. The enemy was apparently firing at random, as the shells fell mostly on the higher part of the town, doing comparatively little damage. HERO OF THE BROKE. LONDON, April 2(5. Midshipman Gyles, the hero of the destroyer Broke, has been taken to the hospital. He is nineteen years old, and was apprenticed on the White (Star liner Mersey before the war. He participated in the Jfhval operations at the Australian landing at Gallipoli, ami was twice wounded.

GENERAL GABLES

THE SOLDIERS’ VOTE

LONDON, April 2(3

Thu polling of the soldiers’ vote for the Federal Elections begins on Salisbury Plains about May 1 or 2.

Voting on the Queensland referendum on the single Chamber issue will not be taken with the Federal poll„ although the Commonwealth military authorities arc willing to help the Queensland au-

thorities as far as their powers permit

I LLOYD GEORGE ON THE

j SITUATION. j WAR MAY LAST THROUGH 1918. j THEY WERE TAKING NO RISKS. Received 11.15. LONDON, April 27. There was a distinguished assemblage at the Guildhall on the occasion of the presentation of the freedom of the City to Mr Lloyd George. AH the Dominions and Indian representatives were present, also Lords Curzon, Milner, and Mr Arthur Henderson, and numerous peers and members of the House of Commons.

The Premier, who met with a great reception, began by emphasising the growing superiority of the British over the Germans. Up to June 1915, we had

lost 84 guns and a considerable number of prisoners, since: when we had not lost a single gun, and had captured 400, while wo had taken ten Germans for every Britisher. They had taken Vimy ridge with 200 guns, which was captured with a fifth of the losses sustained by the French in the early days, when they had inferior equipment. All this meant ultimate victory at less cost. The Germans knew that. He would not say the war would last through 1918, but they were taking no risks, hence the immediate increased ciltivation and elaborate food measures. The future

of the country depended on how r much the politicians had learned. The Empire must be consulted in future before war, and not during a w r ar. The Council of Empire must become a reality.

GERMANY’S INTERNAL TROUBLES.

GERMAN’S OPINION OF STRIKERS

MUST BE RUTHLESSLY SUPPRESSED.

Received 8.45,

Herr Groener. in a proclamation to munition workers, refers to Hindenburg’s letter, and asks: “Dare you defy him? The man is a mean hound who refuses to work while our army has to

face the enemy. Our worst enemies are

in our midst. ’ ’

Herr Groener, in a statement to the Reichstag, said the political elements of the strikes must be suppressed ruthlessly, but workers must have the means of expressing their wishes.

FRESH STRIKES BREAKING OUT.

PEOPLE IMPLORED TO REMAIN CALM.

PEACE PROMISED BEFORE JULY,

Received 8.45. ROME, April 27. A wireless message states that fresh

strikes have broken out in several Gorman towns, despite martial larv. The newspapers appeal to the people to remain calm stating that important events arc shortly to; occur, bringing peace before July. AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. A BLOW TO GERMAN INFLUENCE Received 10.10. ZURICH, April 27.

The Austrian Iron Trust has dissolved. This is a blow to Germany’s influence in Austria, as the trust was backed by German capital.