FOOD STRIKE OF MUNITIONERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1917, Page 5

FOOD STRIKE OF MUNITIONERS.

THE RETREAT CLAIMED AS X VICTORY, Received March 23, 5.® p.m. Rotterdam, March 28. ' i Forty thousand munitioners at Dm< seldorf struck as a protest against short , ' rations. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent states that German newspapers take great pains to prove thai ,J the retreat means victory., All the correspondents at the fronts suggest the •*'; object is to thwart the Allied plans for '' their offensive. Major Moraht's latest argument is that those not understand- , ; inf; strategy must place full confidence in s von Hindenburg, and that those understanding strategy will appreciate nfct* _' j >9 happening. The Koelni&che Zeitung rejoices that ■■■J Cermany has created a zone where :i every facility for the Allies is nonexistent. • 'I The Lokal Anzeiger states that the anew positions liehind are in a country - whereof the Germans know every iIHB, ? while the enemy knows nothing, „i great Anglo-French spring offensive its been reduced to nothing. The enemy Tort < his new Somme 'battle before he foariit "J Germany, who, by a stroke of genftj, 1 .-! letains her full freedom of decision fTfl movement. -fJ

J THE PSYCHOLOGICAL' WEMWIJ, ; ; INSTRUCTIONS TO THE mm.'' PAPERS. ' Received March 23, 10.55 p.m. * 11

London, March 2S. 4 "Plic full text is published of remark J able confidential instructions officially, issued to Gorman newspapers, how to discuss tho submarine war. !J%e in- , 1 i stnictionij declare that the expression of > opinions thereanent may encourage the , enemy. The determined approvs' of the 1 entire people must ring out from tho! i press. All factors had been carefully ' »i weighed, and it was believed that unrestricted submarining was the best and only means of •securing a speedy victory. ■'i The press must use the outward forms of friendliness to America, otherwise the danger of America's participation in « the war increased. The newspapers ' were requested to assert that the Gotman Navy was firmly confident that English references to perfect defences were refuted by results. The personnel of the enemy's mercantiel marine was \ weakened and material was used up. The newspapers were requested to employ the psychological weapon with a , view to spreading fear among tho ' * enemy and neutral crews. ' ' RUMORS OF DISORDERS. ORGANIC AN© SOCIAL. • - 'Amsterdam, March 22. % Newspapers discredit the rumors flf serious disorder and jmint out that the telegraphic communication to- HollanS w not interrupted. • j, Copenhagen,, March ( 22. " % I'roni reliable sources it is learned that the rumors are untrue. * \] CONDITIONS RIPE K)R REVOLT* New York, March 22. 4 j There are 30,000 cases of smallpox id Germany, according to a report of a J speech in the Reichstag by the Socialist - Jlonman received from Berlin fcy the } State Department. / It is believed conditions are ripe foi '-} a revolution in Germany. ' RUSSIA'S OBJECT LESSON, Paris, March Sfc , 3 Herr Ledebour, speaking in the Reich'. ' j stag, said! "We have just learned of the great events in Russia, which emphasise the importance of suppressing our bureaucratic absolutism. Germans do not >vish to remain behind other peoples." j '