RUPTURE WITH AUSTRIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2996, 6 February 1917, Page 5

RUPTURE WITH AUSTRIA

: 'warlike pkeparatiqns broish. advance■ in the - .;- ; -y rawest '; ' :\, ■■ fin HE ACTIVE SBHouglrthei'd aa"B two or tfiree-new developments in: fcbo eubraarine crisis between Germany and America, the general situation' remains ahoufc the same.. As a , corollary to tho.rupture-with Gortneny, diplomatic relations wtill Austria, have also boon broken, off.' The United! States Government has seized some, though not all, of t.he Germaninterned liners. A'general seizure is urged, and jin some rruarters expected.. The Spanish Government is takiug a firm 'eland,on tho rights of neutral nations to.carry on trade with other' neutrals, but tho emallor neutral countries in Europo have uot jet made any demonstration of uote. One of the dispatches discloses an interesting glimpse of the strategy which has apparently dictated' the new German supcr-frightfulrioss. Tho Germans estimate thab tlh'o ■world's ionnage has teen reduced to the lowest capacity ccmpatiblo. with the requirements of tho Allied belligerents, aud if they (tho Germans) can force the pace in the interval of time ■ which must elapse beforo.America can be .prepared for-open war, the Allies can , ■ •be brought to a standstill front' sheer lack: of transport.. On land, . • muph activity is reported! from the British front in tho )Vest, where an advance of 500 yards on a considerable'front has-been achieved. Tiwguns aro aotive right along tho-front.. •" ■ •