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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 164, 17 December 1914, Page 5

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CLEVER GERMAN METHODS. SECURING ARMY RATIONS UNDER RED CROSS SHELTER. Received 17, 1.50 a.m. London, December 10 Mr. Tinsley, the English Director residing at Rotterdam, placed the Uranium Steamship Company's hotel at tho municipality's disposal on the outbreak of war. Thereupon' the building was transferred to the Red Cross Society for the reception of wounded. The authorities ' were astounded, as the. result of a "police laid last week, to discover that the kit. chens had been transformed into a meatpreserving factory. Red Cross cooks were busy packing meat into boxes. Fifteen hundred contained stew, and. 12,000 were empty, awaiting mince-meat, prepared in accordance with the German army's recipe. NO BREAD IN OSTEND. Received 17, 1.50 am. Amsterdam, December 10. A report published in the Handclsblad states that Ostend has been without bread since Monday week, and potatoes are the only food of the people. Dairymen must pay ten francs a day for permission to sell milk. A PRO-BRITISH CABINET. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 15. The new Portuguese Ministry are all Democrats, the party leaders having tailed to form a national Cabinet. The new Government, whose duration is problematical, will continue to support the alliance with Britain. GERMANY'S NEAR NEIGHBORS. ROUND THE BALTIC. Christiana, December 15. The chief obpect of the Malmo meeting is to discuss neutrality, the repression of contraband, and possibly Germany's confiscation of neutral ships and the laying of mines in the Baltic. ANTI-GERMAN FEELING IN HOLLAND. Fremanlle, December 15. Three Dutch priests, members of St. Joseph's Missionary Society, arrived by the Maloja. They are proceeding to New Zealand. They state that 20,000 Belgian soldiers arc interned in Holland', 0000 British, and there are 1,500,.000 refugees, who are costing the Government £50,000 daily. Dutch feeling is strongly anti-German, on account of the atrocities in Belgium.