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has increased the maximum retail price of
potatoes, as an inducement to farmers to send
in larger supplies.
The "Daily News correspondent at Cop
enhegen states that DR. Won Bethmann Holl-
weg's recent u~tterance, that England was
using barbRric methods in attempting 70
starve seventy million people, has had a seri-
GUS effect on the nation. The Chancellor
evidently had not foreseen that the fright
ened people would focus their thoughts on
food, and by repeatedly accentuating his
statements he has drawn the peoples atten-
ton from the military aspect to starvation,
which was laughed at a few months ago but
is now not far from being the real thing IN
some country districts of Germany. About
Munich the people are practically starving,
and in many small Provincial towns 10 South
Germany food supplies are exhausted and
the food shops have been shut. The respon-
sibility of feeding the people has been
thrown on the military Governor, who gets
his supplies from a garrison miles away.
The DAILY Telegraph's" correspondent
at Copenhagen says that on account OF the
scarcity of food the German Government
intends to demand that the five million Ger
mans who have certain incomes should leave
Germany for neutral countries and stay
there as tourists. 1t has been planned
that three million will go to Scandina-
via, one million to Holland aud one
million to Switzerland.
In Paris it is thought that despair inspir-
ed Germany's reply to the United States pro-
test regarding her submarine blockade. In
the opinion of writer's of all sections of the
French Press, who fill columns with ironical
comments, they consider the tone of the do
cument moderate, but declare its reasoning
preposteroue and its meaning defiant. Elk
Premier Clemenceau expresses the belief that
the terror of famine has driven Germany to
the worst extremlties.
The Paris "Tem PSI says: Germany is
making a supreme effort to avoid the conse-
Quence of an inevitable food shortage. The
United States, it declares, can only refuse 80
bow before methods of war meDacing neu-
trail countries, and will certainly not lend it.
self to plans made by the Germans who
want to use America against England and
her Allies.
Halifax, N. s. Feby. 22nd-The largest
cargo ever sent to the British West Indies
is on board the Canadian steamer "Ghaudie-
re-" The cargo consists Of IL, 1856 barrels
of Canadian flour, besides large quantities
of other toodstuffs and manufactured goods.
1t is expected that the Canadian exports OF
-four to these markets this year VIII amoant
to 100000 barrels.
London. Feb. 22nd-An s6roplane lest
night few over Brsintree. Colchester, and
Mark sTey near Coggeshall, and bombs were
dropped which tore holes in the ground
several feet in d~iaMetre, but the other
effects of the raid were inconsequentiul.
The first place attacked was Colchester, but
only one bomb was dropped there, and the
aeroplane, or aeroplanee, the number of ma
chimes being unknown, few to the westward.
Later reports say that Braintree aud Cog
geshsll were hit BY bombs, but that nobody
was hurt and The damage was only slight.
The hostile aircraft seemed to be flying in
the direction o. Harwich. The bomb drop