GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 3 September 1917, Page 5

GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

DISEASE IN GERMANY. MILK IMPORTATION INTERCEPTED. THE NITRO-GLYCERINE EXRACTED Received 10.5 a.m. BERNE, September 2. An epidemic of dysentry is general in Germany and Austria. It is attributed to malnutrition and the patients are unabie to get good milk. The German War Office is intercepting milk supplies and extracting therefrom the nitro-glyeerine. The War Office even intercepts Swiss milk at the frontiers. It is\thought that Germany, if pleaded with, must allow importation from Switzerland, otherwise babies and young children will die. The AustroGerman Governments are seeking to allay public fears by announcing that new foods are invented to replace milk. HUN BREACH OF FAITH. DEFIANCE OF AGREEMENT. Received 9.30. ZURICH, September 2. Germany has committed another breach of faith with Poland. When the National' Council was formed under German auspices, it resigned owing to the Germans sending the so-called Polish Legion to the Austrian front in defiance of agreement.

SOCIALIST CONFERENCE AN EXPLANATORY MANIFESTO Received 8.50 LONDON, September 2. Messrs Henderson Vandervelde, Thomas.and other British, Frei&fth. and Belgian delegates to the Socialist Conference, have issued a manifesto in order to avoid misunderstanding, owing tq the Conference's failure to agree on principal questions. The manifesto states that the policy of Imperialists and other antagonistic tendencies which divide capitalism from the Socialists caused the war. Victory of the German Imperialists would mean the annihilation of democracy and liberty throughout the whole world. The Russian revolution .had not yet stirred an uprising of popular forces in Austria and Germany. Instead, the new Russian democracy had been compelled to defend itself against Tenewed aggression by Tsars at Vienna and Berlin. The Russian peace formula deals more clearly with the definition of peace without indemnities. It should not exclude what i s just compensation for damages. Peace without annexations cannot exclude disannexation of territories conquered by the forces of war. The war' for right must not be permitted to become a war of conquest. Austro-Germans cannot expect any real effective effort towards peace until a substitute is found for present Governments in tic regime, sealing the defeat of militarism. Then it would be the duty of Socialists world-wide, to prevent Allied Governments from crushing $' Austro-German democracy.