WITH THE ENEMY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16164, 19 March 1918, Page 7

WITH THE ENEMY.

STRIKES IN AUSTRIA, j SEVERAL TOWS AFFECTED.. (By Cable.—Pieaa Association.—Copyrijjit# (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Admiralty per Wirekas Kress. (Received March 18th, 8.35 p.m.) BERNE, March 17. The 'Austrian censor suppressea 'Jf. news of serious strikes in several tovrzg, including Vienna. Tho employees in the workshops. of the State Railways and the North-western and Northern . railways joined the movement. Tho Government threatened to shoot the leaders,, send the strikers to the front, and imprison the unfit. The strike in the workshops thereupon collapsed, but several factories are still idle. STRIKE IN BUDAPEST. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Aaaooiatioo.) ZURICH, March 17. The "Leipsiger Noueste Naehrirhten" reports that a strike lias broken out in Budapest. It ia of enormous proportions. Tho strikers have interrupted the telegraphs. . j ' WOOL PLOT IN AMKEWO*.(Australian and N,Z, Cable Association.) (Received March 19th, 1.30 ajn.) WASHINGTON, March 17. . Investigation of the German plot to corner wool has revealed the fact that German agents in . the United States purchased wool in Australia and endeavoured unsuccessfully to ship it U Germany, via America. .* •