GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 11 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

COPPER IN SHORT SUPPLY. KAISER CHASED ABOUT. STRINGENT FOOD REGULATIONS. THREATENED STARVATION OF BELGIANS. TEE SHORTAGE OF COPPER. Amsterdam, February ;l. Tt transpires that the Kaiser's inspection it \Yilhelm?haven was abruptly ended bv t!ie rccc:jt of the now* i!ui three of the enemy's aeroplanes were approach in:,'. The German Federal Council Ira adopted a regulation empowering municipalities to compel persons to divulge the amount of flour in their possession under a hundred kilogrammes and for the expropriation of any quantity exceeding twenty-five kilogrammes (551b.;. Cards have bec n distributed to householders in Greater Berlin entitling them to purchase bread proportionate to the size of their families.

The Cologne Gazette says that Mi' Cluirihill and his satellites have not c • isidered what the policy of starving the Germans must lead to. We have 000000 of war, ar.d part of and Northern France is in our occupation. It contains a population of eleven millions. If it comes to starving, the subjects of hostile countries will starve first.

London, February 9. A leading authority estimates that Germany uses 309 tons of copper daily in at'munition, ami mi .'•quire to import 72,000 tons yearly to maintain the supply of cartridges and shells. The price of copper in Germany has increased two hundred per cent, since the commencement of the war.

PRAISE FOR GERMAN FLEET. FOR PROTECTING THE COASTLINE. I AGAINST AX "OUTRAGEOUS j ATTACK." Received 10, 7.35 p.m. Amsterdam, February 10. Dr Von Lentz, Minister of Finance, m submitting the Budget to the Prussian Diet, said, "Never was a peaceful people more outrageously attacked than the Germans. The fleet, however, had taken good care to prevent England from attacking our coastline. 'ihe political economy of the country is thoroughly able to cope witli the financial situation for a long time to come, and England must not starve us into a disgraceful peace." -Mas Hirscli, a Socialist, declared that his party would refuse to support the Government policy, and said the people , demanded the termination of the war. > Kerr lleydebrand, a Conservative, f voicing the views ot the other parties, ' said the unity of the people remained as at the beginning of the war. ( Herr Lieubknecht interjected: "You have no right to speak for the people," causing commotion. The Budget was remitted to a committee. \ r

NEWEST ZEPPELIN LOST. CREW DROWNED. MOVEMENT AOAINST SEIUTA. METAL SHORTAGE. PROPOSAL TO MELT STATUES. Received 10, 11.25 p m. Geneva, February 10. It is reported at Fricderieh>hafen that the newest Zeppelin has been missing lor four days, and that she fell into the North Sea oil Denmark ami was destroyed, her crew being drowned. Two Tarsevals and a Zeppelin will accompany the fJermans in their offensive against Jjervia. At a meeting of metallurgists at Dusseldorf it was stated that the lack of nu tals was daily becoming more serious. R was suggested that all bronze monur.u nts of royalties and others, wherewith Germany abounds, should bo melted. -