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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9622, 30 March 1917, Page 5

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LORD BERFSFORD PESSIMISTIC PREDICTION OF WORLD FAMINE, By Tclcffraph—Press Association—CopyrljW Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, March 28. lu the House of Lords, Lord Bores* ford said be did not think the captures of submarines were equivalent te the Gorman output of new boats. lie predicted a world famine in the next three years, and believed that the* Germans had more men and food than was imagined. The Foreign Office had too much power over the Navy, We were very much blockaded. ■ Jhc losses of British, Allied and neutral ships in February totalled 281 vessels, representing 505,000 tons; in March, todate. the losses were 255 vessels, ox 420,000 tons. The losses would ha. worse during the longer days and calmer weather. Lords ■ Hylton, Eminott, Lansdowne, and Finlay emphasised that it was impossible to blockade neutr.-'iis unless w» were prepared to go to war. ITALIAN CAMPAIGN BRITISH AND FRENCH GEK-13* RALS VISIT TRENT]NO FRONT. I _ By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sealer’s Telegrams. (Received March 20, 5.5 p.nt.) ROME, Marti;- 28. General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the General Staff in England, and a distinguished French general spent a week visiting the Isonzo and Trentiuo fronts. GREAT ATTACK EXPECTED. Australian ami If.?. Cable Association. (Received March 30, 1.25 a.in.) LONDON, March 29. The “Paris'Journal's' 1 Romo corro* apondent* states that, everybody in, Italy expects' a: ’ gl-eat-attack, preparations for which aro obvious. ■General Rossi slates that H in(lonburg throjitcns to 'precipitate the fate of Roumanin and'Serbifi‘by compromising tile communications with Salonika and forcing the French to face a newfront. The artillery lias been remark-, ably improved. ‘ Mbreove’r, befor® Hindenburg can 'attack,-the Trentina be will be seriously engaged on other fronts.