AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1917, Page 8

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AFTER THE WAR. , PROVISION FOR SOLDIERS. Berne, April 20. A wireless message states that tne Reichstag's committee of trade and industry discussed the question of after war demobilisation. The Minister for War intimated the Government's intention to avoid flooding the country with unemployed and added that the Government Iml decided not to discharge any man until work was found for him. It is anticipated that hundreds of thousands will remain in the army for several months after the war. CORPSE CONVERSION. THE NEW HUN INDUSTRY. London, April 22. The newspapers agree that the belated official repudiation of the corpse factories is not acceptable. It is noteworthy that Berlin deliberated for five days before ehallpnging the Times' translation of the Lokal Anzciger's admission. The Evening News points out that the American Consul-General confirms the slery, while the Chinese Government was largely influenced in breaking off relations by the. authenticated facts about corpses' conversion establishments. The Daily Mail says that the Germans eat horses and tRn the hidee, but never boil them down. The Lancet says the facts are undeniably confirmed from many sources. A thousand bodies would yield two tons of fat or four hundredweight of glycerine. MACKENSEN HONORED. London, April 22. Berlin announces that a great cruiser has been named* Maekensen by the. Kaiser's orders.