AUSTKO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1917, Page 5

AUSTKO-GERMANY.

! FOOD SUPPLIES. AN ACUTE POSITION. Amsterdam, -March 28. The Supreme Command blocked the discussion of a motion jn the Prussian Upper House urging that every means should be used to secure an honorable peace. Herr Batocki told the Reichstag , Committee that the food supplies had been overestimated. The increases in the other rations did not compensate for the reduction in bread, but no other solution was possible. The shortage of pigs compelled ail encroachment on the reserves of cattle. It was impossible to increase the production of food, owing to the scarcity of labor and transport. SHORTAGE OP BEETROOT. London, March 28. A Zurich wireless message states that 26 factories in Bohemia have had to close owing to the shortage of beetroot. HUNGARIAN • ATROCITIES. London, March 28. A Zurich wireless message says that under the pretext of assistance rendered to the Roumanian invaders, the Hungarian authorities have sentenced to death and executed 230 Transylvanj an Roumanians, including .the principa intellectuals, M. Klausenberg, several] professors and doctors, and orthodox priests. At Kronstadt 1100 have been sentenced to penal servitude for life, and the property of upwards of 600 has been confiscated.

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. Rc'ceived March 29, 11 p.m. London, March 29. A wireless German official message state?:—Wc counted a thousand dead Englishmen on the battlefield between Laquicourt and Morebies since the 26th March; which is evidence of the success of our plans. The French advance on the west bank of the Oise, near Lafers, collapsed with sanguinary losses. We captured trenches south of Riport and drove off French detachments which penetrated north of Reims. The thaw has reduced the fighting on the East front. We penetrated RussiaSi positions on the north-eastern slope and the lower wooded Carpathians. We stormed a fortified ridge south of the Uz valley.