UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

GERMANY'S RESERVE. f < |£SS THAN A MILLION BOYS. New York, Sept. 16. Sr. Trtnk Simmonds, writing in the i"ribune, examines the latest srar statis'ics and *ays Germany confronts the ertainty of a fourth year of war with * reserve of less than a million composed of boya. Mr. Simmonds believes that Germany will exhaust her last re(erves before September. 1918, and will then lie forced to choose betwen shortfeiag her Baca or courting disaster. PRUELTIES IK GERMAN PRISONS. ' Washington, Sept. lfi The State Department has received a teport of cruelties in German prison amps. Some Russian soldiers tut a tunnel with a knife and escaped. They (tate thai the diet consisted solely of bread and turnip soup, nrith occasionAlly a little horse meat The tortures induded enforced standing to attention ' for 24 hours and suspension by the jjrrisU. One labor battalion has Cius peat radnetd from 2000 to 500. fIKBMOW MESSAGES STOPPED. " ' , New York, Sept. 16. The Swedith Foreign Minister has bade a statement that the transmission of German messages has now stopped. The Swiss Government denies knowledge of any dispatches and has protested against Germany asking for CONTROL OF SUGAR. ■Washington! Sept. 16. . PmJdefct Wilson has issued a. protlamatkai placing tbe sugar industry fender Itriet license. It is now virtually mder Mr. Hoover's control, which will •top speculation. IBS SUBMARINE SCARE.

New fork, Sept. 10. Smrtf of the submarine scare are Insflktiag. Borne usert that destroyIn «r» Morning tiu coast of the Unitad State*, and others that ships were recently mined to look oat for submarine* ifith dummy funnel*, nuuts and jKiuwatmetia*. The 3f«w York Times hints that it is |oisible the story is a German hoax.