ENEMY COUNTRIES.

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ENEMY COUNTRIES.

DECLINE IN BUSINESS

KAISER VISITING RUSSIAN

FRONT

1 iLONDON, Oct. 6. Renter's Zurich .correspondent states that the vacant shops in Berlin have increased by 217 per cent, a-s . compared wjth December,, 1913. The Austrian Government, has confiscated dhe barley and potato crops, and; the .output of ibeer has been reduced by 94 per cent. ■

' AMSTERDAM, Oct. 6. An official message from Berlin states that the Kaiser Vhas gone on a visit to the troops >of General Linsengen, whom lihe Russians are chiefly attacking.