Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 20 December 1916, Page 2

Central Powers

THE KAISER AND COD. divine mission ASSERTED. SLOPPING ST OVER THE SOLDIERS. Press Association —Copyright, Australian ami hi.JCt Gable Association. : .j(fleqei'Kecl.. 11.80 a.m.) /■ (Amsterdam, December 10. The Kaiser , on 14th Decanil»oi-, speaking to the Lorriiin© army said; “I have addressed our adversaries .. proposal for peace negotiations, it is uncertain whether they will accept, and the act is in God’s hands, as is our whole struggle. He will decide upon it. We will leave it to him and must not, argue about His ordering. We are grateful to Him, as we thus far have the honour of being His ire struments. In the Divine judgment that will come upon our enemies, let the decision fall as it will. The hewing will proceed further until our adversaries have had enough. 1 can trust yon for that.” GERMAN SOCIALIST VIEW. (Received 11.55 a.m.) Amsterdam, December 19. Herr Scheme) jnann, , leader of the German majority, writing in ~the ,'Chlogim j-,Gazette,. emphatically -denies that be condemned the Belgian depoßlttiotis” Referring to peace, he says that if the terms included depriving Germany of a single province, she would immediately commence re-arm-ing to recapture it.

THE DECLINING BIRTH-RATE.

ALARM IN AUSTRIA AND GERMANY. STARTLING HUNGARIAN EXPERIENCE. (Received 11.25 a.m.) London, December 19. The prodigious decline in the birth rate in Austria and Germany is arousing the utmost anxiety. In one Hungarian, district they had at one time 170,000 births annually, but owing to the drafting oft of tinmales, the birth-rate averaged ten thousand for the past two years. Such a loss threatens to equal that of the battlefield.