GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1916, Page 5

GERMANY.

THE BELEAGUERED NATIONS. A NEUTRAL'S REPORT. • London, May 28, In the Daily Chronicle a neutral traveller describes conditions throughout the beleaguered empires. Austro-Germans are mostly dining in restaurants, as they are cheaper than their homes. There arc crowds in cafes and beer-houses. Actresses are prohibited in the music halls, where there are entirely male performers, specially exempted. These are frequented by the soldiery for drinking purposes. The. prices of clothes are almost normal. Iron discipline checks food riots. War prisoners are employed in large numbers in the fields. Trench wines are largely sold. It is believed they have been stolen from the occupied territories. There is a marked change in the attitude of the people, who now express full admiration for the Russians and the French, but regard the Italians as traitors and uncompromisingly bate the British. AMERICA MUST BE KEPT NEUTRAL. INTERNAL TROUBLE^ Received May 29, 5.5 p.m. London, May 29. The Daily Chronicle's neutral correspondent's account proceeds to state that everywhere it is admitted that .var with America must be averted, as it would be a final and crushing blow. It is noticed that thrift is carried to the most extreme details. In Austria the train lamps are burning oil from apple pips. An appeal is circulated asking for the surrender of gold teeth and plates and stoppings for the duration of the war. Dentists are forbidden the use of gold. There is considerable agitation in Southern Germany for food. The dictators have power to override the local laws, which prohibit exports to Bavaria and other States where foodstuffs are plentiful. Herr von Beth-mann-Hollweg has gone to Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe with a view to revising the food organisation. Important negotiations are beginning in Berlin, to be finally decided after the war, as to the position of Alsace and Lorraine. The neutral learned that the Germans had rebuilt the Liege forts in concrete and iron. "THE GREATEST OF THESE." GERMAN PAPER'S BLASPHEMY, "MORE SMACKS THAN KISSES." Timee and Sydney Sun Services. Received May 29, 5.5 p.m. London, May 28. The Vorwarts, in denying the abatement of the hatred campaign, quotes the following from a Munich pamphlet: "Let us have education in hatred, in love of hatred, organisation in hatred. Away with the immature fear of brutality and fanaticism!, Let us adopt, politically, the motto, "The more ■ smacks the fewer kisses." We must not hesitate to declare blasphemously that to us is given faith, hope, and hatred, but the greatest of these is hatred." EGGS SEVENPENCE EACH. A SOCIALIST'S PROTEST. Amsterdam, May 27. The Berlin Tagdblatt says that the commune of Friedian in Berlin has adopted stringent regulations, and is numbering meat - tickets to stop . rioting at butcher's shops. There is a great shortage of eggs, which are sevenpenee each, and dealers are asking for the abolition of the egg trade monopoly. In the Reichstag, Herr Dittman, a Socialist, made a violent protest against the military violating the mails, the prohibition of freedom of speech, and arrests under the military law. He instanced cases where innocent people had been kept in gaol for fifteen months without trial. His speech made a great impression, and the Government's reply will be made next week. THE WAY OF THE CENSOR. TO BAMBOOZLE AMERICA. London, May 27. The Daily Mail's Hague correspondent says that the German censor is allowing many messages to pass emphasising Germany's willingness for peace, and denouncing the Allies for being wickedly responsible for a continuance of the war, with the obvious purpose of influencing the United States and hinting that if President Wilson is not prompt Spain or Sweden will have the honor of stopping hostilities. The Cologne Gazette, commenting on Sir Edward Grey's speech, however, recognises that the war must continue until military events convince Britain that she lias no more to gain. ANOTHER LIE EXPOSED. Paris, May 28. , Le Matin says that at the end of 22 months Professor Schwalde, director of the German Weekly Medical Review, writes as follows: "It is untrue that aviators on August 2, 1914, bombed Xurnberg. The mayor of the latter recently declared that the commandant of the 3rd Bavarian Corps was never aware of a bombardment of the stations at Nurniburg, Kissingen, and NurnburgAnsbach either before or after the declaration of war." This charge, made with visible emo- ' tion by Count von Schoen, the German Ambassador in Paris, has been Germany's ' principal argument with a view to g'iv- ; ing neutrals the impression that France was the aggressor. ' It is an obvious fabrication, paralleled by the famous Ems telegram which precipitated the war ia 187 ft