CENTRAL NATIONS MENACED BY FAMINE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14667, 26 July 1918, Page 5

CENTRAL NATIONS MENACED BY FAMINE.

LONDON, May: 21.. "I feel confident that the time is at hand when stark, mediaeval famine wjll become the political - and military* ally of the Entente against Germany and Austria," wires ''the correspondent of the Daily Mail from Annemasse, m France, near the Swiss border. ' j ' An authentic witness' r whose observations extended up to April, he as- ' serts, told tho ' correspondent that the German and Austrian masses are sick' of war, think only of bread, and display a morale so low thai the Goveriinieijits . fear Bolshevik movements. . ; Two prisoners were reported to have been murdered and part of their bodies eaten by their fellows. The narrator ' said he arid : his family had lived for weeks on mushrooms. People of^eri ' faint from huncer,* and matters growing worse daily. "Even the soldiers," he added, "are insufficiently fed, are sick of war and thoroughly apathetic about it. It is a common sight . ItO see - them -hegjirlng food. Every one jthinks 'the- .expected food relief' from the Ukraine is bply 'another Prussian swindle.' : > ■■■ y - - "So far as they' dare, the people 'jjeer at talk of smashing the. British and '• French and at the submarine campaign. President Wilson was callpd a ' pedant > at first, but the people '"are changing 1 their tune and are afraid America 'is; m earnest." ' - ' •-