GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1917, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN.

HINDENBURG’S VIEWS. AMSTERDAM, Get. 12. Von Hindenburg, replying to the German National Chamber of Commerce, said that England’s envy closed the door of international commerce. She shall feel the sharpness of the sword until .she perishes. Admiral von Scheer, in reply, said they would send all the Peace Committee your confidence inspires in Üboats and meq. We will, ho said ensure that the British will never again dare to pick a quarrel. Herr Hertling, speaking in. the Bavarian Diet, said the British were hard-hearted, calculating, businoss men hut they wore also beginning to doubt whether the war was a paying business. : /

A GRAVE CRISES. ] (Received. This Day at 8.60. a.m.) ! PARIS, October 14. The Matin's Zurich correspondent . says the German crisis is the gravest since the war. Jlichaelis and the panGermans find themselves pitted against the Reichstag majority instead of merely the Independent Socialists. Admiral Von. Capelle accuses Michaelis of shameful desertion after they had agreed to stand together m the whole affair ' MICHAELTS IMPOSSIBLE. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 12. The Reichstag lias adojurned till December 6th. The “Vorwaerts” declares that Michaelis, after recent scenes in the ReichstaVj is finally impossible as Chancellor. A GERMAN REPORT. GERMAN CLAIM. fAPUrKAr.TV —I’KK WIBEEEBB PBESB.j (Received Yesterday at 11.10. p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. German official.—ln a combined action by the Army and Navy we obtained a footing on the Island of Vesel. A GERMAN REPORT. LONDON. October 12. A wrsless German official message | states that between Lvb and Ypres i on the Menin road, the fining in- j creased suddenly to drumfire in the morning. New enemy attacks then commenced on wide sectors. Thero is intense artillery northeastward of Soissons and eastward of the Meuse, and at Monoatir Basin the Cena bend A GERMAN ADMISSION. A LONDON, October 12. A wireless German official message says the battle is stall in full swing. On the Langemarek-Zonneboke front the fighting continues in some places where the English penetrated our linen northward of Poleapello and south-westward of Passchcndaele.