GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1916, Page 5

GERMANY.

The food problem. Amsterdam, July 14. On the pretext that the British Navy Is stopping food supplies, the Germans have transferred 15,000 civilians from ulle, 10,000 from Roubaix, and 5000 »«n Turcoing to Mesiers and Cliarla.Tllle, employing; them in agriculture. New York, July 14. The German Minister of Agriculture, interviewed, -said they need not worry ■bout another year's war. Last year* ■ harvest was very poor, but this was much greater. Potatoes would be plentiful and the barley and oat crops were abundant. The outlook for. the meat supply was improving. STARVATION APPROACHING. 4 SOME PITIFUL LETTERS. " ' TICKETS FOR EVERYTHING. RIOTS CONTINUE. Received July 15, 5.5 p.m. l lr . London, July 14. Mr. Phillip Gibbs wires that Germany's food policy is "soldiers first." xiiAoners letters disclose increasing hardships. A Woman wrote: "You reproach me for Wt writing. If I told you the truth •bout conditions here at home I would be locked up. Tickets have to be got for everything—flour, sausage, sugar, and soap." "Another woman wrote: "England is not so far wrong about starving us. "If the war lasts another three months we will be d,one for. God is punishing us over-aeverely. We have had no meat for six weeks, and we are all on the downward path. Riots continue at the markets; even some people with money arc unable to buy anything." Mr. Gibbs comments that there is only ttte grain of satisfaction in these pitiful letters, namely, the hope that the devil . at the .back of the business will realise war does not pay, and will haul down the lag with the skull and cross-bones.

RIOTS AT COLOGNE. MILITARY SUMMONED. Received July 16, 5.15 p.m. Amsterdam, July 15. The demonstrations at Cologne on Sunday ended in riots. The military were summoned and twenty citizens were killed, forty being wounded. Many Arrests were made. Four policemen were killed. Many soldiers refused to fire on the rioters. , At Aix la Chapelle, the Uhlans charged the rioters who were ransacking shops.