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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3275, 25 June 1917, Page 4

GERMAN.

HAOKHANDER TO IVAN

END OF TRUCE ON RUSSIAN FRONT. fAuKtralian-N.Z. Cablo Association.] Petrograd, June 22. German aeroplanes em the north I'ront dropped messages thanking the Russians for fraternisation enabling the Germans to transfer troops to the west front to meet the Anglo-French atacks, and concluding: "Now we havo had enough we are going to fight, and will fire on fraternisers." Tho Peitrograel-Aloscow railway strike has ende>d, the Geivcrinneiit granting increased wages. THE WORST OF FOES. DROUGHT AND DREADFULNESS. CROP OUTLOOK SERIOUS. rßeuter's Telecrain.l Amsterdam, Juno 22. Except for occasional violent hailstorms there lias been no rain in East Germany for eight weeks. The hay is ruineel and tho position of the grain crops is most serious. The drought is so bad in Bavaria that tho Ministry for Agriculture hits ordered the sreams to be damned in order to inundate tho fields. Hail anel thunderstorms devastated the whole area between Brieg and Old an in Silesia. Tho Frankfurter Zeitung states that lightning exploded munition works at Foerdo, in Westphalia, and destroyed the worksheds. Two wero killed and four injured. Eleven farmsteads were burned clown at Grass.hdenbrurin, Bavaria. Alany cattlo wero incinerated.