AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

A SINGER'S VIEWS. '

ON PEACE'AND FOO'D SHORTAGE. New York, Oct. 23. Frau Freda Hemp], German prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has arrived from Germany. She says that Germany is anxious for peace because a decisive battle is impossible. President JVilson should hold out an offer to mediate. The food shortage was excellent for German ■ women, who were brooming slimmer and getting more elegant figures, because of their abstinei ; from fat.

iTEAR.OF AIR REPRISALS,

Zurich, Oct. 23, ' There is a panic in West German towns at the possibility of air reprisals. There are lighting restrictions at Munich, Strassburg and Cologne. A nightly service iinploring Divine protection a«ainsrt the barbarous enemy is held at Karlsruhe. AN OBJECTIONABLE CENSUS New York, Oct. 23 The New York Times Berlin correspondent states that there is great indignatiori at the Reichstag committee's motion for a census of the. men who are providing the necessities of life in Germany. The measure was adopted against the advice of the Government representatives. who consider that prominent citizens who are serving in this way will regard the census as an insult.