GERMAN SITUATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11760, 20 February 1919, Page 5

GERMAN SITUATION.

** BEGOM3NB WORSE DAILY. •SHORTAGE qf food and - UNEMPLOYMENT. ' rAnat. and Cable AwoclatioiU Loudon, Feb 17 mi,o Frankfurter Gazette says tue Cabinet he wanted it was impossible P oli °y . win le ftance lonely aiming at I! resumption of faostmtie?. Santzau is remaining in office out to the wishes ct the correspondents at Cologne JJrto a great meeting ot 6000 Lnrkers to consider the shortage ot Tad and unemployment. Speakers APclared that the working class had JS, incapable of work since the Immer 0 f 1916 owing to under The situation was hecom--5 voibb daily. A family’s weekly nnnlv of tea was exhausted at a Kmeal owing to the meagreness the ration. The potato crop was ! noor quality. The meeting appointed a delegation to the British military Government, who symoatVeticaliy .heard them and promised to help. GERMANY’S FINANCIAL POSITION. Weimar, Feb 17 H er r Schiffer, Finance Minister, informea the Assembly that the financial situation was desperate, , n( lt!ie future dependant on the Entente’s demands. Germany reunited to raise nineteen billion narks by taxation, compared with fire billion before the war, OPENING OF THE DIET. A POPULAR DEMONSTRATION. 1 * 1 “ London, Feb 17 The Daily News’ Warsaw correspondent states: There was a great nopnlar demonstration on the occasion of the opening of the Diet. Iheoity was eu fete. Thousands thronged the streets and cheered the Allied delegates, who were accompanied by Paderewski and Poiis h Ministers THE BLOCKADE. Paris, February IS. There is no possibility of the blockade slackening until Germany signs cue naval and military peace teims, now being drafted, bat fihico will not he ready for about ten dcys.