CENTRAL POWERS.
FOOD SUPPLIES OVERESTIMATED. AN OFFICIAL ADMISSION. "" {Australian and N.Z. Cable Assni) 'AMSTERDAM, March 28. ' Hcrr Batocki, Food Controller, told the Ruichstag Committee tliat the food supplies had been over-estimated: Increase in other rations did pensate for the reduction, of bread, but there was no other solution possible. A shortage of pigs compels encroaching on tho reserves of cattle. It, is impossible to increase the production of food owing to labour and • transport shortage. PEACE DISCUSSION BLOCKED. The Supreme Command blocked the discussion oh a motion in the Prussian Tipper House urging that ©very means be taken to secure an honourable peace. VENGEANCE ON ROUMANIANS. ZURICH, March 28 On a pretext of having given assistance to the Roumanian invaders the Hungarian authorities sentenced to death and executed on March 23 many Roumanians in Transylvania, including the prieipal intellectuals at Klausenbiirg y.nrl several orthodox priests at Kronstadt Eleven hundred were sentenced to servitude for life and the property of upwards of 608 was confiscated. SUGAR SHORTAGE. ZURICH, March 28. Twenty-six factories in Bohemia bave had to close owing to a shortage "of 'oeetroot.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16232, 30 March 1917, Page 8
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183CENTRAL POWERS. Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16232, 30 March 1917, Page 8
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