CENTRAL POWERS.
FAMINE IN BOHEMIA. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. ZURICH. August 20. Official statistics show that Bohemia had 4000 deaths iu 1918 from hunger and sickness. % THE CENTRAL HARVEST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. AMSTERDAM, August 20. The German harvest is good, the Austrain poor and the Roumanian a faillire.
GERMAN EVIDENCE OF PRESSURE. ZURICH.. August 25. German newspapers since July have been unusually full of announcements of men killed in action. A 111:1 st remarkable feature is the revelation of the large number oi men aged ever 40 years killed in ike vf-gion of Iho Marne and eastward of Rheinis. Side l»y side with them many younger men figure in those notices, which repeatedly record more than three years' faithful service. This f;v L suggests lhafc Germany utilised in the disastrous offensive many men over 40 with yot:nger men -who previously were employed in tho auxiliary services outside the danger none.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16620, 27 August 1918, Page 6
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153CENTRAL POWERS. Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16620, 27 August 1918, Page 6
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