GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 January 1918, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

GERMANY NEAR STARVATION

ONE LAST DESPERATE EFFORT

TO BE MADE.

U-BOAT CRUISERS FOR AMERICA,

Received 10 10,

NEW YORK, Jan 18

Mr Grasty, cabling to the New York Times, states: ..“I find ever-increasing evidence in Holland and Switzerland that Germany is feeling the pinch of starvation. The strict enforcement of the blockade is affecting German stocks, and it is unknown how long they will last. There will be a final desjperate fight with the Allies. The military leaders wall strike hard on the ’ Franco-British line of fronts, they will utilise all their submarines, send cruiser U-boats to America/ arid use deadlier gasses and bigger guns. Mr 'Grasty adds: But the Allies are thoroughly prepared to meet the onslaught confidently and unflinchingly.

A SORRY PICTURE

AMSTERDAM, Jan 17,

Herr Durnburg, speaking in the Prussian Upper House, said they must abate the shocking living conditions in the cities, or the terrible decline in the birth-rate and the mortality among children under one year of age would become still w'orse.