IN GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 August 1918, Page 4

IN GERMANY.

GERMAN FOOD CONDITIONS. A BAD WHEAT HARVEST. eßceived 8.40 a.m. NEW YORK, August 26. The 'Times" Washington correspondent interviewed Mr Hoover, who said the Germans have less' grain in 1918 than in 1917. The extreme drought in Rumania, extending to Bulgaria and Ukraine, has affected the grain yield. Rumania now. needs grain and Buigaria is not exporting the 1918 crop. SIGNS OF THE BRUTE. UNSPEAKABLE GERMAN CRUELTY. Received 9.10 a.m. '■'-*'";■ ; ' NEW YORK, August ?6. The "World's''' Washington correspondent states that Allied diplomats made a statement regarding cruelties inflicted on Allied prisoners in Germany. In one instance a British, soldier wounded in the foot remonstrated with his guard for being forced to do> fatigue duty, and he was shot dead when he pushed the guard's rifle awny as the guard was about to strike him with the weapon. A Scotch soldierwas shot down because he walked slowly owing to a wounaed foot. APPALLING MORTALITY IN - GERMANY. <" BIRTH RATE FALLING, INFANTILE: DEATHS INCREASING. Received 9.50 a.m. NEW YORK, August 25Doctor Custom, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, writing in the New York Medical Journal, says the German birth rate has fallen off 40 per cent, and the infantile death rate 50 per cent, higher than in Ireland.