THE FOOD PROBLEM.
THE POSSTBON \H RUSSIA.
GUARDING AGAINST RIOTS
PETROGRAD, March 12
The Military Commandant lias issued a proclamation regarding' the disorder of the last few days, and acts of violence and attempts against the soldiers and the police. It forbids assemblages in the streets and warns (lie inhabi-
tants that the troops have been ordered to use weapons if necessary to preserve order. The newspapers have stopped publishing and the tramways nave ceased-
THE DISTRESS IN GERMANY
A FRANK ADMISSION
[ATJSTTUJ.MN .<Sfi ti.'l. CaIILE association.] deceived this day at It)--*) a-m-AMSTERDAM, March 12.
I)r iieini, the Bavarian peasants' leader, writing to the newspapers, says: it is better for Germany frankly to tell the truth regarding the food situation limn to continue to work on a wrecked system- There are still 120 days before the new harvest- Even if hunger broupjit peace to-morrow it would be many months before we could get corn owing to the bad crops.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1917, Page 5
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