WITH THE ENEMY.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13667, 8 September 1916, Page 3

WITH THE ENEMY.

CHANCELLOR'S BLUFF.

MILITARY SITUATION "GOOD,"

WIDESPREAD UNEASINESS IN GERMANY.

("Router's Telegrams.")

AMSTERDAM, September G,

A Berlin telegram states that Dr von Bcthnianu-llollweg (Imperial Chancellor) assured a conference of party leaders that the military situation was good and tlio war loan prospecls wore very bright. , . ' •

Obviously these assurances were necessitated by widespread uneasiness in Germaiiv.

GERMANY'Jf PEACE TERMS,

DEMAND FOIt ANNEXATION,

("Renter's Telegrams.")

AMSTERDAM, September (1.

Hcrr Ilaclinisch, a leading Socialist, in au article in Wonvacrts, confirms the idea that the Socialist majority supports some annexation, especially in the East, Wonvacrts, commenting on this, recommends more sober views and a. concentration, oil the ending of the war.

GERMANY'S FOOD PROSPECTS. DISMAL-OUTLOOK. ("Itculcr's Telegrams.") AMSTERDAM", September C. The. Cologne Gazette takes a gloomy view of the food prospects. The paper says the hope l'or larger and cheaper supplies-of meat must be abandoned. The new meat ticket is not a guarantee lliat each Gorman will recccive 2oU grammes weekly, but it merely represents the limit attainable,under the most favourable circumstances, IN GERMAN HANDS. SUFFERINGS OF BRITISH . I'M ISOMERS. (Aust-rnlinn and X.Z. Cubic Association), NEW YORK, September (i. Mr William Simpson, a. Sydney merchant, has arrived at New York, en roiitc to Australia. Jlc spent eighteen months in the prison camp at Kuhleben. When he left a few weeks ago there were still more. Hum 40(J(J prisoners there, many being (50 and even 70 years of age, TJiesc were not released because .they had been -shipmasters and marine engineers. 1 •

Mr, Simpson travelled: to Biililcb'en wjth five others in ;i horse-box ten feet square, with damp and liltliy straw, on the. floor. The prisoners were treated very harshly. The iish supplied to tliem was often putrid, and the other food was coarse anil unwholesome.' When two patients escaped from the hospital the others were forced to walk through the snow to the liorsc-boxcsc. At, this time three deaths occurred through exposure.

STOBMY SCENES IN BUDAPEST.

GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED.

("Router's Telegrams,")

AMSTERDAM, September (i.

A Budapest telegram records Stormy scenes in the Hungiirian Diet. The .Premier was greeted with -shouts of "Resign" from Count Karoly's party, and whs repeatedly interrupted. Count Tisa-urged the necessity' for Hungarian iniity "iii'thc-iiglit for Existence,

GERMAN WAR LOAN. ~ ' UNPOPULAR WITH GENERAL PUBLIC. (Australian and N.H. Cable Association), . AMSTERDAM, September 6. The chief subscribers to the German war loan avo the savings banks and the munition firms. The total collected in the first two days was.far below that taken of previous'loans. The general public is subscribing little.