AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

' A GLIMPSE AT GERMANY. ' DISEASE AND SUFFERING RAMPAXI. ' EVOLUTION PREDICTED. Received ,}aj). 10, 11.10 p.m. Times Service. London, Jan. lfi. An American scientist, writing from <■< nuany, states thai there is an epii.i'iiMc nf jaundice and diarrhoea, due t. •ioimtch and dental troubles owing to the saccharine eontained in The nauseous artificial ten. eollee, n,'i iheniieal foods that are being used. A sub.Vitute made 'if vegetable fibre lias replaced cotton : 'ind weo'lens, which are. waTO. The < people f.re sullen ana dissatisfied, i'lia : autViriups imprison grumblers. The ; .vit:on<!_ Service Bill is killing small i lionesses. nrm the middle class is a!- ' rcadv turned. Immorality is rife. Antir'.erliiiifm and anti-Prussianism 1s t-r\diVy crowninn the remainder of Germany. The Prussian authorities lmve : taken steps to maintain their predominancy after tile war by keeping Int. young Prussians at humfe ai.e, sending noni'liissinns to the front. The people Jiav» ' Io;-t all hope of victory, and expect an early invasion of Hollai.n or Denmark foi food supplies. Hindenhurg and Ludendorff have replaced the Kaiser 'ami the Cro\'n Prince ,\s popular heroes. Thi* .Socialists are Intently active. The writer predicts an early revolution. There are tin thousand deserters, iijcluil :ng a number of officers, in Holland, awaiting events. , i I ~ j V MORE MILK WANTED. | 1 Received Jan." 1(1, 10.20 p.,-,i. Amsterdam, Jan. 1.". Eignty thousand German house frfu? have petitioned the Food Department foi a better milk supply, specially' Jor children. ' " ; _ A War Economy Board has been estab-: lished in each Prussian province, to sap- j ply faiyners with labor and machinery. | | A GISpT'MOVEMENT OF TROOPS j Received Jan. 10, 5.3 p.m. ! i Amsterdam, .Jan. 15. j ! Reports from the frontier assert that in great movement of troop- and guns ; s ' 'in full swing to the 'westward. ABUSE OF SACERDOTAL FINC- ' TION3. Received Jan. 10, ,~>,l n.m. :'ome, Jail. ."> 'l'he Pope has sent a. confidential letter to the German Cardinals at Cologne and Munich in reference to their abuses of sacerdotal functions. A SOLATIUM FOR THI< KAISER. ' Am.-.tor !,.m, Jan. 1,1 The King of liavario has sent a (lispatch to the Kaiser, in vhieli he declares that the indignation Ahieh has been aroused in the Kr.aer'a Heart by the enemy's arrogant reply to the Peace Nontc is echoed in every Bavarian breast. LIEBKNEOfITP SENTENCE /.u'nc'i, Jan. Dr. Liebknecht lias i/ow been sentenced to 4% year?.' hard j.tbiv jujc expulsion from the Berlin bar. lIOLDWEG TO COMMENT GN ALLIES' REPLIES. Received Jan. 16, 10.." n.m. , <uri,;!i, Jan. 15. Breslau newspaper,-: state that Rerr von Bethmann-Holhveg will address the Reichstag at the end o! January respecting, the Entente replies, and ihat the Government will. of-jvioKsly confer with the party leaders.