GERMANY.
'.'ENGLAND'S LODGER." $ - " (PREPARING FOR MERCANTILE ;„ STRUGGLE. ' "- Copenhagen, May 30. , Bjttr Ballin, at a meeting of the Woerm»nn Xine,' said that when the, war • ended 4 new commercial war would beGermany would have an antagonist during the war who was very strong, tout with "undaunted courage would commence the great national work, knowing that the Reichstag would assist in restoring the marine. After a successful war we must settle the freedom of the seas and the question of the, German Colonies, in order that . Germany will not merely be England's todger., V'AVIATION SHED.S BURNED. '■■ Copenhagen, May 30. /t The .aviation sheds at Dresden-Neu-"i|«dt have, been burned, together with twenty-foUr aeroplanes. ' THE FOOD v PROBLEM. COMMUNAL FEEDING ' Received May 31, 8.20 pjn. Rotterdam, May 31. 'Berlin messages state that Herr von Batocki is carrying out the organisation of food with characteristic Prussian thoroughness. He is securing inventories of' -food in all private houses in the municipality of Berlin, and has established 25 large kitchens, to supply 820,000 persons daily. The price of a. ■ meaTis now thirty-Ave pfennig. Other municipalities have taken action. Communal feeding inn' originally intended for the worl.in;,--class districts, but in Lent many middle-class people were in a sad plight, causing an agitation in favor of the authorities feeding \ljch and poor in a uniform manner. , The German harvest promises to be exceptionally poor. Prior to the war 700,000 tons of nitrates h .d Ijeen imported for agricultural purposes, but v>ns were u«d this year. AN INTERESTING LETTER. A private letter that was smuggled out of Germany says: "We are ell becoming vegetarians. We have only a quarter of a pound of meat and two eggs each. Weekly. This sounds, dreadful, but vegetables,are abundant. Asparagus is cheaper than ever and the fish supply is excellent, -.though .there is little butter and 0i1,,t0 cook them with. •Berlin is as joyous as ever, and all racecofims are active. A million and a half narks one day passed through the "Parinmtiiel," but everybody except the officials, arc utterly weary of the war. "The Germans cannot understand why the Allies, persist in it. This week we were all beftapged on account of the de- . feat of- Italy, which is supposed to have finished her. 'All the good news, however, does not affect the desire to end the war, and the belief is universal that We will have a victorious peace before next winter. It is reported that fortyseven'Zeppelins have been lost since the beginning of the war, and twenty-two submarines were turned out of the SchwaHzkopf factory during the last eight months." <.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1916, Page 5
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