ABOUT THE ENEMY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17879, 27 August 1918, Page 5

ABOUT THE ENEMY

HARVEST REPORTS. POOR RESULT IN AUSTRIA. AMSTERDAM, August 24. The ‘German harvest is good, but the Austrian is poor, while the Rumanian is a failure.

DEATH FROM HUNGER

SITUATION IN BOHEMIA

ZURICH, August 24. Official statistics from Bohemia show that there were 401)0 deaths in 1918 from hunger sickness.

CIGAR FACTORIES CLOSED. SHORTAGE OF MATERIALS. AMSTERDAM. August 24. Germany’s 6000 cigar factories will be closed from New Year owng to lack of materials; 220.C00 workers will be thrown out of employment. •AUSTRIAN DISCONTENT. ' OFFICERS’ LIVES ATTEMPTED. WASHINGTON, August, 25. Official dispatches from Switzerland say that, attempts against the lives of officers in tile Austrian armies are increasing. The commanders of Austrian corps are told by their officers always to carry revolvers when in the rear.

THE TRUTH COMING HOME.

BERLINERS LOSING NERVE. (Received August 27, 2.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 26. A remarkable demonstration in the poor quarters of Berlin followed a report that the military age limit would shortly be raised. Excited crowds assembled in the streets, but dissolved on the appearanoe of the police. Freuenters of a certain cafe revenged cncinselves bv throwing pictures of the Kaiser, the Crown Pr.nco, Hindenburg and Ludendorff from the windows, tviiero they were tramped on the ground. This example was imitated by a large numbei of householders. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Rotterdam correspondent says:—The past week will rank as one of the most important of the war.« The events on the vVes ern front have had a tremendous effect on the people of Germany, who are only now allowed to know that Ludendorff’s gamble has failed, and that the defensive policy must be resumed on iho West, while Germanv consolidates her gains in the East. Competent observers declare dint the people in Berlin have completely lost their nerve.