Germany.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1915, Page 5

Germany.

HARVEST IN HUNGARY. GOVERNMENT CONTROL TIMC GRAIN. Received June 21, 10.40 p.m. Zurich, June 21. . The Hungarian Government has sequestrated the new grain harvest, and has established a monopoly regulating the entire corn trade. The embargo will last till August, 11)16, and the public will receive a monthly allowance. YOUNG MEN CALLED UP. FOUR THOUSAND NEW TROOPS. Received June 21, 10.40 p.m. Rotterdam, June 21. It is understood Germany is calling out a further four thousand young men. They are first-class material, and are mostly railway workers. NAVAL ACTIVITY. NEW SHIPS REPORTED BUILT. Received June -21, 12,45 a.m. London, June 21. A German naval officer asserts Germany has built two battleships of 2ti,000 toils, with a speed of 25 knots and carrying 15m. guns, since August; besides 48 submarines, including twelve of 800 tons, with a speed of fifteen knots submerged and twenty knots on the surface. THE BERLIN EXCHANGE. FALL IN FOREIGN STOCK, Paris, June 20. Although the (publication of the Berlin Exchange quotations is forbidden under a severe penalty the "Matin has obtained a reliable comparison of prices as follow: Aug., June. 1014 1915 Prussian 3i per cents. /■'>} 59 . Imperial 4 per cents. .. 00 54 Austrian 4S per cents. . 951 54 THE PEOPLE'S OUTLOOK. A JIORE SOBER SPIRIT. Amsterdam, June 2.0. The President of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet states that it had been repeatedly said "we must obtain a peace that will safeguard us against a repetition of the present attacks." His belief was that no suo'i peace was 1 possible. The greater Germany emerged from the war the greater would be the endeavor of her adversaries to snatch away by a new coalition what she had gained. London, June 20. A neutral observer writes:—"Some Germans are beginning to wonder what is the matter with Germany, why she has no friends, why everyone is trying to stab her to the heart, why she cannot keep the peace M'itli nations hitherto neutral. Germany to-day has so many hatreds to cater for and enemies to damn that she is not equal to the task. There are signs that a more solier spirit is replacing the 'Gott strafe' 1 fever. Every day reveals outspoken '■ criticism of the foreign policy. The 1 man an the street is beginning faintly 1 to realise the wide gulf 'between Ger- ' man right and t : ic right of other peoples. A well-defined cleavage is ap--1 parent on the Italian question. The ■ Prussians feel that the new war does not concern them, but the Bavarians are( enthusiastic about the war. The 'Galician successes have elevated Austria in German esteem and cemented the union henceforth. Germans officers are acting officially* in all farts ol Anstro-llungary." FOREIGNERS IN UNIVERSITIES. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received June 21, 5.45 p.m. . London, June 20: A Berlin professor advocates the exclusion of foreigners from the, universities. He says reprisals would be harmless, because foreign countries do not possess anything good for Germans. The Rhodes scholarship is of no value except to enable a German student to get shot and to spend a large income.