LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3041, 5 April 1923, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

COST OP RESISTANCE WHAT GERMANY IS PAYING SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE (By Cable —Press Association). LONDON, April 3. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express-says that thirteen suicides in Berlin in one day are an index of the price Germany is paying for her policy of passive resistance. The lower, middle, and •working classes arc suffering greatly. Medical statistics show that 50 per cent of the children in Prussian schools are now underfed, and a large number are suffering from scrofula and allied diseases owing to the high price of milk and soap.

GERMANY’S COAL SUPPLY

INCREASED ENGLISH IMPORTS (By Cable —Press Association). (Received 11 a.m.) BERLIN, April 4. English coal totalling 011,000 tons reached Hamburg during March, as compared with 355,000 tons during February. Coal is also being imported from South Africa. PROHIBITION IN TURKEY FLOGGING FOR LAW-BREAKERS < (By Cable —Press Association). (Received 11 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 4. Prohibition operates from to-day. Allied troops will be permitted to buy drink in specified saloons, but anyoue else drinking alcohol will receive thirty strokes of the bastinado. THE AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT CONDITIONS MORE SERIOUS (By Cable —Press Association). (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The drought conditions are daily becoming more pronounced and prospects for next season are more ominous. Practically everywhere throughout Now South Wales the rainfall for the first quarter of the year is much below the average. Ploughing and other preparations for the coming season are all behind, and unless a good general rainfall comes in the current month, the outlook will indeed be serious. Much grazing country has already been depleted of its stock, which had to be removed.