THE CENTRAL POWERS
GERMAN MAN-POWER. DIFFICULTIES INCREASING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, May 24. Semi-official despatches show that German man-power is so weakened that the Government is forced to take drastic measures to fill up the gaps. It has even formed battalions of convicts. Tlie garrisons are depleted, and the men's places in the munition factories are filled by women. PROTESTS AGAINST WAR. MUTINOUS SOLDIERS. LONDON, May 24. Reports from. Germany state that mutinous regiments held protest meetings against a continuance of the war and against the action taken by the commanders. GERMAN DIVISION MUTINIES. SIXTY SOLDIERS SHOT. THOUSAND AWAITING COURTMARTIAL. NEW YORK, May 25. (Received May 26, at 5.5 p.m.) A wireless message from Russia states that a German division at Dvinsk revolted when ordered to proceed to France. Sixty soldiers were shot, while more than a thousand others are awaiting court-martial.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17325, 27 May 1918, Page 5
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