THE MIDDLE EAST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17833, 4 July 1918, Page 5

THE MIDDLE EAST.

FAMINE IN PALESTINE. SHOCKING CONDITIONS. AMSTERDAM, July 1. . The Jewish Correspondence Bureau publishes a letter describing terrible famine conditions in Northern Palestine Prices of foodstuffs are extorlionate and the people eat the grass growing 01 the graves. Hundreds of orphans arc wandering in a famished and naked state. Many people die (.•!' hunger in the stieets. GERMANS IN PERSIA. MOBILISING COLONISTS. MOSCOW, July 1. It is leporled from Voronesh that the Germans cor.tinue to advance with the utmost tenacity. They are also arming the German colonists in the Tabria district. The People's Convention in Northern Caucasus has ordered immediate inolilisation owing to the continuous advance of the Germans. The latter have occupied Tifiis, and are organising the Austrian and German prisoners of war. ENEMY ATROCITIES. A STBERIAN THREAT. LONDON.. July 2. The Armenianappeal reveals the mosi appalling conditions, worse thin anv war hurrors. The Turks massacred two million? in Turkish Armenia and two millions in Russian Armenia, and Similarly threatened the Czechs. Sibciia holds two hundred German

prisoner.-?, rnd threatens reprisals on them if Austrian outrages in Italy continue.