Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 98, 22 November 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

FUTURE GF POLAND. GERMANY’S REAL AIMS. ANGRY OH GATE IN PRUSSIAN DIET. Pros*? Association —Gbpy right, Austi»• liau and N.Z. Cable ARsociatiou (R oceivoil '8.50 a. in.) Amsterdam, November 21. After nn angry debate, tlio Prussian Diet by 180 votes to MO! agreed that Poland must give Germany permanent military and economic; guarantees; also, that the German character of Prussia’s eastern provinces must be maintained. The minority in the voting included Poles, Progressives, Socialists, and Danes. Herr Stvoebol (Socialist) declared that the so-called liberation of Poland was merely annexation and would intensify the war.

THE FOOD PROBLEM. “COMPULSION IS NECESSARY," SAYS HIMDENBURC. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 8.50 a.in.) Amsterdam, November 21. General von Hindenburg, writing to Chancellor von Uethmaun Hollueg, states that compulsion is necessary in order to solve the food problem and supply war material. It would lie necessary to lully utilise labour, and everyone should spare what he or she could to feed the troops and the munition workers. FRANZ JOSEF DODGING DEATH. Press Association —Copyright Renter’s Telegrams (Received 11.9 a.in.) London, November 21. A bulletin from Vienna states that the Emperor of Aflstria is also sulferiug with inflammation of the lungs ami that his temperature was 100 degrees. Nevertheless he is not in bed.