GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1915, Page 5

GERMANY.

A FOOD PANIC. ■■.? UTOCH MISERY. , . ..;' Paris, Oct. K. '• '■"< A French communique states:—Tm| •[ scarcity and high prices of food it ,* many has caused a pani", ?*,?-'. Herr von Bethmann-IBoUweg an* '!f/ noimces thai lie will personally d(*l ."'■< with the question. In order to mwt th« * crisis the Federal Council has furthtit '?J< restricted the sale of meat, The s<*>•■*",, ,% J . ist leader, Herr Wurm, deohri-t tip-'Y\ : ', such misery was never seen in Gwrvu , ■', before. ' . t -jj PEACE TERMS. V ANOTHER, CONTRIBUTION;'. '■„* Received Oet. 26, G. 6 p.m. ~';4 New York, Oet, 85. ".", The American publishes an irttirfie* '.;J with Herr Delbvuck relative to the ■' / terms of police Germany hope* t • to secure if President , WIlio«| ; '•£ and the Popo consent to' lit ,';i as mediators. The culminating, pal* ' sage of the interview states tj>at # '<\ is quite possible peace would be BMurett V by ceding to Germany such colonist- at •• *!' Uganda by England; the Freneh tAjd, ,•',' Belgian Congos as a ransom for tiift'".* vacation of northern France, and Bel" 1 >"'J jgiuiu would probably have to pay «* ,Ct indemnity to Germany, though. Hour',-..,' Delbruck thinks England ougkt to v&i' ■•■■**, it. ,

. .. •$ RENEWING THE POPULATION.' Y* vi" SUGGESTED MEANS. ' s • f +t Times and Sydney Sun S«rrt»». ' ,/. Eeceived Oct. 26, 5.5 p.m. -, '■<■ London, Oet. SB. 'jg The Gorman Government it conkMwM • .4. ing a programme for ti>e renewal *^\:'-'rf the mole population.- A meeting <>tpw ffi Prussian House of Lords suggested s•<,{£ abolition of the legal age; a*ai»t#W»'4'fßto the impecunious; State preminin»<fW '<&; large families; also heavy taxes Sft}; >j bachelors and old maids. v'' ,» 1 • r vi