WITH THE ENEMY.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13936, 19 July 1917, Page 6

WITH THE ENEMY.

GERMAN SHIPPING PROBLEMS, BOLD rOST-WAll PBOJECT. .Tiinea- Service). July 17. - An important project to recover tlio lost shipping position after .the war has been launched in the Reichstag in ; «a measiiro providing for tjic rebuilding of over two million tons of merchantmen destroyed by the Allies, The German Government- will not lend, but will find the money for the shipbuilders for this 'purpose, and will also make funds available for the upkeep of interned vessels. The GoVernment and the Bremen and IFamlnu-g shipping magnates liavo been conferring for months on this scheme, which aims at restoring in nine,years Germany.'s', pre-war strength in liierchantiuen. This was iive million tons of which it is stated that the enemy has destroyed a quarter of a million, ; and seized more than two million tons. Tho tonnage blockaded in neutral waters is a million, and that war.-b.ound ia German harbours two millions.. ,

INGREDIENTS OF BREAD IN GERMANY. •■ ' ; MISCELLANEOUS AND INDEFINABLE mixtures: i (Australian and N.Z. Cable Associatoin) ZURICH, July 17. Five ■Minority Socialists in the Roichstag are asking Dr Michaclis r the now Imperal Chancellor, whether lie is aware that an analysis of tho i Thread in various parts of Germany shows that it is composed of 24 per cent., of flour, 21 lupins, 17 of chestnuts, 17 of aconw, 12 of tree bark, .6 of wood shavings, : i of- potato peels, and -2 of miscellaneous andundcfinablo mixtures. GOVERNMENT CRISIS IN TURKEY. _ •' <■;;;■ LEADERS AT YAEIASSs. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) ... ATHENS, July-17. The crisis at Constantinople originated in a violent quarrel.between Talaat Bey, Minister of the Interior and Envoy Bey, over the, jatter's rcpqrt concerning the measures' to be adopted, which he considered urgent for Turkey's military interests. ECONOMIC CRISIS IN TURKEY. , ONLY SEPARATE.PEACE CAN '-' SAVE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) Recoiyed July 18,10.50. p.m. ... •'•

HOME, July 17. Ecclesiastical soul!cs in Turkey repoit that Talaat Pasha's losignation was clue to his convictions that only a scpaiate pc.iec could save Turkey. The iood flhoit.igc was uubeaiable, The Auny bicn.d lafion was now foiij| ounces daily. jA

'fy?X EFFECT 5 OF YON HOLLWEG'S - ; :.-V^^■fiEStaNATiON..' .;; (Eeutor's Telegrams,) ; EeccivcJ. July 18, (1.4 p.m. ;■•■:." : "»;■,■■ AMSTEBDAM, .luly 17. ; ; A Vienna message says tlio Premier, ; in addressing the Constitution Commit- '■•';. tee,' promised that the problem of giv* : ing equal .rights to all Austrian nationalities' would be solved by constitutional ■'; ' methods. '•-,"■'■ X- \V '.Another message states that Dr von Bethmann-ITollweg J s resignation is generally" regretted in Austria. The Tageblatt states that it wns solely owing to the conviction that von Bethmarin-Hoteg was ready .to. make peace that the German. annexationists did not disturb the Austro-German relations., , . ' ■