NEW GERMAN TAXATION.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 23 May 1916, Page 6

NEW GERMAN TAXATION.

ANOTHER WAR LOAN. TREASURER'S SCHEME OPPOSED. ROME, May IS. A conference of all the Gennan States' Finance Ministers, held at Berlin, discussed the establishment of new taxes necessary to meet the war expenditure. The imposition of the taxes is urgent, as the Government does not want to risk the floating of another loan. Dr von Heleffrich submitted a scheme by which the States would be forced to pav the Imperial expenditure. Practically all the States Ministers opposed the scheme. The result of the conference is not known. WAR PRISONERS* TREATMENT. GERMANY 'FLOUTB HAGUE CONVENTION. WAR WORK ENFORCED. t I'AR Is, May 17. A Bulletin des Armees has been published, which states: "A notice has been placarded in German prisoners of war camps stating that the performance of all work allotted to prisoners will be enforced, even if it is connected with war operations. Refusal will be punished by deprivatio-n ot food and sleeping accommodation, and the men will be exposed to wind or in rooms heated to 140ileg Fahr. They will also be beaten with the butt of the rifle or the bavonet." Many British, French, Russian and Belgian prisoners have been forced bv threats to work in Gennan war factories. The French Government has threatened retaliation. CUT OFF FROM CIVILISATION. THE HAGUE, May 17. British and other soldiers at Schneidemuchl Camp are being compelled to work on farms and in mines, chiefly in East Prussia and Poland. Many ot the prisoners have been deprived of letters and food parcels, which are not deliverable in the absence of I'heir correct addresses. AMERICA AND GERMANY. MR ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OUT. WASHINGTON, May 111. -Confidential advices from Germany report that the Gennan Government wiil not reply to the last American Note, considering that the submarine (|tiest.ion has been closed. Speaking at Detroit, where lie urged the 1 nited States to prepare in case war broke out, Mr Theodore Roosevelt advocated universal military serv ice, declaring that if Germany had at any time gone to war with the I'nited States the latter would have been obliged to pay a crushing indemnity costing more than the whole expense of preparing. It was plain that the United States was absolutely refusing to learn any lesson from the European conflict or making the slightest attempt ,to uphold its national rights or honour. President Wilson has cabled to the British Government asking them to delay the execution of Jeremiah Lynch until the American Government have time to investigate.