GERMANY’S TROUBLES.
A RETURNING BOOMERANG. HITTING GERMANY VERY HARD. GERMAN CIVIL WAR THREATENED. eceived 8.50. PETROGRAD, Dec 27. A committee representing several hundred thousand Austro-German prisoners passed a resolution, at Petrograd, demanding the acceptance by Germany of Russia’s “democratic j peace terms,” otherwise they will declare war on Austro-German Imperialists and join the Russians. In order to enforce democratic terms they urge Austro-German soldiers in the trenches to surrender. CHRISTMAS IN GERMANY. FEARFUL CONDITIONS PREVAIL.. r RIOTS. IN MANY TOWNS. —i—- - TEN POUNDS FOR DINNER. Received -10.50. BERNE, Dec 27. The striking feature of the German Christmas is the acute misery of the people. 111-clad women and children are openly begging for food in the snow-covered streets. Hunger riots occurred in many towns, the most serious at Cologne. Fashionable Berlin restaurants are charging ten pounds sterling for a dinner.
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Taihape Daily Times, 28 December 1917, Page 5
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