AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

FATE OF A ZEPPELIN. ] LAST MESSAGES FOO'D. ; ym&k - " ' Copenhagen, August 3. Fishermen found a bottle containing , the last inesage3 of the commander and crew of Ll9, which was lost early in February. Commander Lovre reported: ''l am with fifteen men on the platform of ■ the gondola of Llfl, which is going very ' slowly. While returning from England in a fog we were bombarded by Dutch • tentineis, and at the same moment the ciotors iailetl.'' The bottle also contained fifteen letters from the crew to their wives and j children. i SHORTAGE OF FOOD. j •HARDSHIPS OF THE POOR. rimes Service. London. August 3. The latest evidence indicates that the uerman harvest .will not last till spring. The population is now suffering severely awaiting the harvest. Thousands of the poor in the large cities are subsisting on |>agttocs and sugar. There is the greatest' scarcity, of soap, leather and some j.ciessaries, but it is believed Germany would be able to hold out economically »for many months resisting the blockade '.'prMSure,-only a military defeat reducing her. CRITICISM NOT WANTED. A PAPER SUSPENDER Copanhagen. August 3. Hie military authorities have suspended the publication of the Berliner Tagebiatt, probably owing to its comments on the prohibition of various peace meetings and Socialist gatherings. PEACE MEETINGS PROHIBITED (Eeuter Message). ' Amsterdam, August 3. " The authorities prohibited a meeting of the Stettin committee recently formej to spread the idea of peace based on Herr von Bethmann-Hollwcg's proposals for the retention of occupied territory in the East and guarantees regarding Silgiuni. Copenhagen, August 3. The socialistic peace meetings which had been arranged to be held throughout Germany on the occasion of the second war anniversary have been prohibited, because the Socialists refused to allow the manuscripts of their speeches £d be censored. HINDENBL'RG'S COMMAND Copenhagen, August 3. it is officially confirmed from Berlin that, in view of the general situation of the Russian offensive, General Hindenburg has been appointed to the supreme command from the Baltic to Galicia.