WITH THE ENEMY.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15752, 20 November 1916, Page 7

WITH THE ENEMY.

A TERRIBLE CRISIS. HINPENBI" RG' S CON I"E>>l ON. (By Cabio. —Press As3"c:at:oy..—C opyri-Ut.t .Router's To'iyrair.s." 'Received November 19th. 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. November li s . Marshal von llindcnburg. in a loiter to Dr. von says: — •'Germany is facing u terrible crisis, and great changes are necessary to meetit." He denounces the Food Department's failure to adequately feed munition workers, the greed of the agrarians who are retaining products, ami the sluggishness of officials who fail to recognise the life and death nature of the war.

MUNITIONS FIRST, {Australian and X.Z. C-ablo Association.) (Received November 19th. 5.5 n.m.) ROTTERDAM, November 18. An important feature of the German scliomo of reorganisation consists of a measure to obtain increased supplies of food for munitions and industrial workers in winter. Every private interest -will be sacrificed to increased productiqp, and munition workers will have first call upon foods, especially upon fats. PRESSURE ON TRANSPORT. (Received November 19th, 5.5 p.m.) ROTTERDAM, November 18. Owing to the pressure caused by the transport of provisions and war material, the general railway transport service of Germany was suspended three days at this week-end.

POLISH AUTONOMY. MEN CALLED TO ARMS. (Received November lf/th, ■">.•") p.m.) AMSTERDAM,- November 18. The Governor-General of Warsaw has issued a decree that it is necessary to incorporate temporarily the Polish Army with tho German Army. The decree states that Polish soldiers must swear fidelity to the Polish Fatherland, with the Kaiser as chief war lord and the monarchs of the two Central Powers as tho guarantors of a Polish State. "VOLUNTEERS" GALLED FOR. AMSTERDAM, November 17. Tho German papers state that tho enrolment of Polish volunteers will begin on the 22nd inst. "Gerinania" says that a Vice-Regent will be appointed until a King is elected. GERMANY'S CONDITIONS. BERNE, November 17. The German Chancellor, addressing the Grand Committee of the Reichstag, said that Germany's promise to create a new kingdom of Poland was only conditional, and its fulfilment depended on the success of the scheme to raise a Polish army to fight for Germay. If an insufficient number of Poles enlisted voluntarily Germany would introduce compulsion, and if the Poles resisted, or the projected Polish army was unsatisfactory to the General Staff, the Kaiser would annul his promise to create tho new kingdom. AN AUSTRIAN EXPLANATION. ("Tho Times.") 'AMSTERDAM, November 17A Vienna telegram announces that in cfrder to conform with international law and to give tho now Polish army belligerent power "-Lid status it is necessary to embody the Polish troops in tho German army. ABUSING BELGIUM. PALPABLE GERMAN LIE.

(Recciverl 'November 19th, 8.50 p.m.) AMSTERDASf, November 18. Inspired -German newspapers state that the deportations from Belgium are being \piadc in a tranquil and orderly fashion, and that the Belgians arc gratified at tlxe receipt of good food and the prospects of earning OTHER, LIES EXPOSED. (Received November 19th. 0.0 p.m.) ■ AMSTERDAM, November 18. Ar illustrating the falseness of Germany's contention that she is deporting unemployed Belgians ofily, soldiers suddenly surrounded Denager's papex* mills at Willebroick, and crowded the entire staff of 2-50 people into cattle trucks, and transported them to Germany. A similar incident occurred at the potteries at Boom, but a number of workmen escaped into Holland. RIOT AT TURCOING. (Australian and X.Z. CSabl« Association.) (Received November 20tli, 12.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 19. "While the Germans were marching three hundred civilians to the station at TurcoiDg, a soldier struck ono who was not walking fast enough. A riot followed, in which the Germans used their rifles freely. Sixteen civilians were killed or wounded, and two Germans stoned to death. AMERICA FOBBED OFF. (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) (Received November 19th, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 18. Germany has acknowledged the United States' protest against the deportation of Belgians, but has deferred a reply. A BELGIAN APPEAL. WASHINGTON, November 17. The Belgian Minister has appealed to the State Department to actively intervene in regard to the deportations from BelgiumA DRASTIC SENTENCE. (Received November 19th, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 18. The Germans have captured one of the editors of the"Libre Bclgique' 7 newspaper, which has been secretly published at Brussels, and have sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment.