GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

. .THE BERLIN RIOTS. .&■*..« i ... a.^ CHANCELLOR'S RESIDENCE ATTACKED. y> Received Dec. 27, 10.30 p.m. ' Amsterdam, Dec. 27. The Telegraaf states that the recent demonstrations in Germany were more serious than has been revealed. Several thousand people, mostly women, marched to Herr von Bethmann Hollweg's residence and the windows were smashed. The mob chased officers 1 to a neighboring cafe, the women shouting, "Our men are at the front; that is also your place." The police with drawn swords dispersed the mob.

NEWSPAPER SUPPRESSED.

GERMANY'S FUTURE DISCUSSED. JReceved Dec. 27, 10.30 p.m. ' Amsterdam, Dec. 27, The German military have suppressed Herr Mazmillian Harden's newspaper, Die Zukunft. Herr Ballin, in sending Christmas wishes to the nation through the colums of the Vossiaehe Zietung, said that the men who will be called on to set out terms of peace will have as the principal task the terminating, simultaneously with a war which has destroyed generations, of the armaments fever, at any rate eo far as concerns the welfare of Europe, which will be exhausted for a decade. They must also prevent this sanguinary war being followed by an economic war, separating the nations. The demand for freedom of the seas comes once more into prominence. The seas have always been free in peace time, but in war time we again found to our cost that the strongest fleet rules the sea's. Hence means must be found to guarantee freedom of traffic for mercantile fleets both in peace and war time. To make a free route from Berlin to Bagdad as our only aim of the war would be reverting to ft purely continental policy, and seriously prejudice Germany's prospect* jegarding the future of her political economy.

GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLY. Professor W. J. Ashley writes in the Quarterly on Germany's food supply. Germany, he tells us, has been completely shut off from food imports-fshe has been able, as we know, to purchase considerable quantities from neutral countries —hut in spite of imports her people have suffered and are suffering grave discomfort. But. while the imports have made things a little better for the German consumer, especially in the north-western provinces, they have been very far from restoring equilibrium between 'demand and supply. According to Professor Ballod, lecturing on June 15 last, nine-tenths of the normal food import has actually teen cut off; almost all the grain and feeding stuffs, half the butter, cheese and fish. As a result the retail price of food has gone up approximately twice as much as in England. A Hamburg newspaper wrote towards the end of may: "Anyone who has seen the crowd surging around our greatly enlarged war kitchens can understand how heavily the rise in the price of food has weighed upon our poorer brethren." If German newspapers have recently written less in this strain, the explanation is bound to be found in military orders like those of the Higher Command in North Bavaria, by which articles on the cost of living have been placed under "preventive censorship," on the ground, among others, that "they encourage the enemy to hope for victory."