Central Powers.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 16, 2 January 1918, Page 5

Central Powers.

i IRON RESERVES NEARING EXHAUSTION. I AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLI ABS’nJ Amsterdam, Dec. 31. Two professors of the Prussian Geological Institute state that Germany’s iron reserves will be exhausted in forty or fifty years, after which she will be entirely dependent on foreigners unless the Longwy and Briey districts are annexed. ANGLO-TURKISH EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLB ASS’N-l Berne, Dec. 31. Turkish and British delegates have signed an agreement for the exchange of incapacitated prisoners on the basis of a low schedule of disability. A preliminary exchange of a thou- ’ sand Australian and British for 1500 ! Turks, and the repatriation of civilians of non-military age has been arranged. GERMAN BARON’S CONFIDENCE. U-BOATS WILL SETTLE AMERICA. (Received 2, 10.5 a.m.) London, Jan. 1. The ‘‘Daily Express’ ” Petrograd correspondent says that Baron Kaiserling, a former naval attache at’ the German Embassy, and an old > friend of the ex-Tsarj is now attach-; ed to the Naval Mission to Petrograd i Interviewed he admitted freely that I Germany was feeling the pinch, but I matters were not as bad as were! painted there. It was certain that I there was war weariness in Germany | but she (.Germany), was prepared to ■ hold out for a long time if necessary, i America might be danscrous, but ! the U-boats settle her. <- j