THE AUSTRIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 4

THE AUSTRIANS.

SEi/fE GEuMAN FOOD. THE EN EM IKS FIGHTING FOR SUPPLIES. Geneva, December 15. News from Innsbruck shows that the dissensions between Germany and Austria, with regard'to the food question still continue. Tho Auslriaiis have .seized about a thousand German, railway -waggons containing cereals from Rouinaaiia, nitrat-p an<l metals from Turkey, and forage and dried fruits from 'Bulgaria. Not only has Austria, taken possession for her own use of these con«ignnienls but she has ceased tv send io Germany any further supplies of sugar, petroleum, or fa-Is. Germany bus retaliated by stopping the export of coal anil other commodities surely needed by Austria, and also by holding up exports from Holland and Denmark. The goods traffic- between, tlie two allies has decreased by 20 per cent, during the past six weeks owing to these measures. Negotiations between Berlin and Vienna- are still going on. Germany insists that in future Austria must victual herself in the Balkans, and Austria repudiates this advice, and in the mean time outbids Germany in the purchase of cereals in Reumania, Io the great profit of that country. Germany has now proposed the appointment of a, Commission to settle her d'ifTeienoi's with Austria, which aro further complicated by the action of Hungary in supporting Germany rand refusing io r-end foodstuffs or ma-te-rials of any kind to her partner in .tho Dual Monarchy. Meanwliile prices in Austria continue to rise.