GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 May 1918, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

aSKMANY APPROACHING GRAVE CRISIS. DIMINISHING FOOD AND DE- • LAYED VICTORY. DISEASE RAMPANT. Received 8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, May 13. Mr Cyril Brown, the; New York World’s Hague correspondent learns that Germany is approaching a new grave war crisis. People' are alarmed bocatise of. delayed victory and dwindling food supplies.' The comparative, plenty enjoyed during the winter is now succeeded by hunger. The meat ration has already been reduced, and sickness is spreading alarmingly. Twenty-three per cent of the population is suffering from disease in Germany. Food reserves for civilians are near the exhausting point and no relief is in sight. THE CROWN PRINCE AGAIN. LONDON, May 12. The Times’ Hague correspondent sates that the Crown Prince is involved in the dispute that is raging over the franchise. He telegraphed to Count Spec congratulating him on his motion proposing to shelve the Reform Bill until after the war. The German Press, discussing the incident, notes increased military interference in domestic and foreign policy. It is anticiapted that Count Hcrtling will be obliged to adopt some jugglery in order to delay the Reform Bill and gain time. Vorwacrts says the spirit of freedom and the spirit of conquest is mutually exclusive. We cannot 1 esablish a military dictator in Ukraine and adopt a democratic pose at home. The Bremen Burgerzeitung declares that a great wave of discontent is sweeping over the people, due to the costly result of recent battles, the burden of expenditure, and the insolent rejection of equal suffrage. !