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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16283, 10 July 1917, Page 8

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BREAD RATION MAY BE INCREASED. MEAT TO BE REDUCED. (Australian and \.X. Cable Assn.) AMSTERDAM, uJly S. Von Bocker, president of tlie War Supplies Department, informed the Reichstag Committee that while June and J u]y were the most critical months, any danger from the reduced bread ration was past. He was hopefid lie would be able to increase it early in August, when the meat rations would be reduced in order to conserve milch cows. Prospects for the potato crop were better now than in 1016. GERMANY'S REQUEST. CARDINAL MEPOTRR TO BE RECALLED. ROME, July S. It is reported that Germany lias

asked the Pope to recall Cardinal Mercier from Belgium. The request has been emphatically refused. If Germany insists, relations with the Vatican will become strained. YOUNG TURK CABINET. RUMOURED RESIGNATION"; ' - LAUSANNE, July 8. It is reported that the Young Turk Cabinet has resigned. " WIFE'S SOLICITATION. TO THROW OVER GERMANY. (United Service.) LONDON, July 8. j A writer in the,.'"Daily Express " states that certain members of the House of Commons received private news that the Empress of Austria is strenuously pro-French, .and is endeavouring to persuade tlie Emperor Charles to withdraw from the alliance with Germany. . . : . . ,