STATE OF GERMAN AGRICULTURE
RESTORATION WILL TAKE DECADES.
(Reuter's Telegrams.)
AMSTERDAM, May 19.
The Bavarian agrarian leader, Dr Hein, addressing the Farmers' League at Munich, said cattle and other stock had been decimated and the soil exhausted. It would be self-deception to believe' that pre-war conditions w T ould ever return. Rebuilding would take decades, and Germany would be unable to export goods which were needed at home. Salvation lay between free trade and compulsory State control.
AUSTRO-GERMAN BARGAIN
GIERMANY TO SUPPLY FOOD
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,)
(Rec. May 21, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 20.
The Daily Mail's Hague correspondent states that the Austro-Gewnan. bargain stipulates for a supply of food to Austria from Germany in order to render an offensive against Italy possible.; It is intended-that Bohemia, th.o Tyrol, and Vienna shall especially benefit.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 115, 21 May 1918, Page 5
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