GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 22 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

SECOND ZEPPELIN WRECKED. SCARCITY OF FOOD. Copenhagen, February 10. Count Platen commanded the second wrecked Zeppelin. (The first messages 'received seemed > to indicate that two Zeppelins had got into dilliculties, but the later reports appear to be somewhat diverse accounts of the same occurrence. It now is evident that the Zeppelins L 3 and AE4 must have been caught in the same snowstorm. The crew of L 3 landed and burned their airship, and the crew of AE4 dropped into the sea, but subsequently reached the coast. . Times and Sydney Sun Services. London. February 1!). The Kaiser has conferred the Order of Merit on General Falkenliayn, in recognition of his victory at the Mazurian Lakes. An English governess, who has resided in Berlin for seven years, has returned to England. During her stay in Berlin she did not hear a word about German atrocities in Belgium. The principal) food in Berlin is potatoes and stale bread and dripping. Meat costs Is (id to Is 8d per pound, and butter 2s fid. Amsterdam. February 19. Telegrams from Berlin state that rioting has taken place at Sehonberg, where the authorities oreaniscd a sale of cheap potatoes. Thousands of women formed s queue and waited lor hours in the rain. Then the officials said that only those who produced reecirts for tliei- last taxes would get potatoes. Tlie infuriated women stormed the buildings and thrashed the officials. A LAST RESORT. MEN OVER FIFTY CALLED UP. Received 22, 1.10 a.m. Paris, Fbruarv 20. Official: Germany has called up men of fifty and fifty-two years of age for service.