AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

THE RUHLEBEN CAMP, - ; INHUMANITY CONTINUES. Now York, Sept. fi. • William Simpson, a Sydney merchant, lias arrived in New York en route to (Australia. He spent eighteen months in the prison camp at Ruhleben. When he left a few weeks ago there were still more than four thousand there. Many men of 65 or even 70 years of aga had -tiot been released because they had been shipmasters or marine engineers. Mr. Simpson travelled to Ruhleben with five others in a horse-hori ten feet square with damp, filthy straw on the Boor. The fish was often putrid and the offler food coarse and unwholesome. When two patients escaped from the hospital the others were forced to walk through the snow to horse-boxes. Three depths occurred through the exposure.

UfcRMAN GLOOM, THE CHANCELLOR LIGHTS A CANDLE Amsterdam, Sept. fi. The Cologne Gazette takes a gloomy &"iew of the food. prospects, and say?: The hopes of larger and cheaper supplies of meat roust he abandoned. The new meat ticket does not guarantee that each German will receive 2.">0 grammes (100 ounces) weekly, it merely represents the limit attainable in the most fav.irahle circumstances. The Socialist Wachnisch, in an article fn Vorwarts, confirms that the Socialist majority supports some annexation, specially eastward. The Vorwarts, commenting, recomknends more sober views and concentration on the ending of the war. Berlin states that a telegram from Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg assured the conference of party leaders that the military situation was good, and the War, loan prospects of the brightest. Obviously the assurance was necessitated by the widespread uneasiness in permanv. A Budapest telegram says that there were stormy scenes in the Hungarian Diet, Where the Premier was greeted with shouts of "Resign" from Count Rarolys' party. He was Tepeatedlv interrupted, but urged the necessity of Hungarian unity in the fight for csistPLAUSIBLE BUT FALSE. London. Sept. 6. ' a German official wireless message flenies that any person has been killed ill Germany in consequence of the food disturbances which foreign newspapers pre inventing. THE WAR LOAN, Amsterdam, Sept. 6. ■ Ths chief subscribers to the German loan are savings barfks and munition firms. The total for the first two days is far Jbelow that for previous loans iand the general public is subscribing little. iXOTRER GENERAL DISMISSED. Received Sept. 7, 8.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 0. . Hie Kaiser has dismissed General von ODeinling, who was commanding the fright wing of the Crown Prince's army j&t Verdun. BEVEXTLOW'S PAPER SUSPENDED. Received Sept. 8, 12.10 a.m. Amsterdam, Sept 7. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung, Count lUventlow's paper, has heen suspended.