GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1919, Page 6

GERMANY.

THE BOSCHE'S LOSS IN MANHOOD. BLOCKADE CAUSING MISERY, By Telegraph.—Ffe3s Assn. —Copyright, Berlin, May 18. A telegram via Copenhagen states that the filial adjustments of war losses shows that 1,077,000 Germans were* killed and 354,000 are missing of whom nine-tenths may be regarded as killed, 4,317,000 were wounded; 010,000 prisoners have not returned. —Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Berlin, May 30Herr I-lirscli, the Premier, informed the Prussian Diet that Dr. Froderger, on. behalf of supporters of the proposed Rhenish Republic, had secretly negotiated with the enemy with the view of establishing a neutral State under the League of Nations.—Aus.-N.Z .Cable Assn. / London, May 18. The Observer, in an article, demands the immediate raising of the ( blackade, which is inflicting frightful misery upon Germany, espefcially on the women and children. The treaty must be considerably modified, otherwise mankind will certainly drift back to slaughter, following social and international dissension. The democratic forces everywhere must resolve that the paper peace must speedily become the real peace for a reconstructed and reconciled Europe: 'There shall be no war."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. | THE FINANCIAL BAROMETER. Berlin, May 19. A Government wireless message states that there was a great drop in prices when the Stock Exchange re-opened, in some cases as much as 10 per cent. The decline in the State loan and shipping 'shares was especially noticeable.—Aus.N.Z., Cable Assn. Amsterdam, May 19. Ignoring the state of siege the Young Men's Christian Association at Munich held its usual meeting and the members were arrested. Government troops entered the prison, and, believing them to be Spartacists, fired, killing 20. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.