AUSTRIA. INTERNALLY.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1918, Page 3

AUSTRIA. INTERNALLY.

£jPEK PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.) !: AUSTRIAN- AFFAIRS. (Received This Dav at 10.15. a m.) LONDON, May 9. The “Daily Chronicle’s" Amsterdam ’ correspondent s»ya the. German papers ■declare Austria is heading for a disaster , owing to the southern Slav menace. Th© latest proposal ib to separate Bosnia, ■ IHerzegovina and Dalmatia from Austria, and add them to Hungary, in order to compensate her in view of the Austrian settlement of the Polish question, whereby Austria-Hungary will become a Triple Monarchy. AUSTRIAN FLEET REVOLT. ;■ Received this day afc 2.36 p.m.,) <■ WASHINGTON, May 9th. I Official advice received here says th© i mutinous disturbance which occurred in 1 the Austrian fleet has caused changes J in the High Command. | MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. AN" ITALIAN ARREST. / (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) ROME May 9. Signor Parodi, President of the a-ation of Shipowners, who has a fortune |of four millions sterling has been arrested, apparently for trading with Gerimany. Parody is a director of financial :ahd industrial companies, and is a leading personality in the Italian shipping \ world.

GERMAN PROPAGANDA

(Received this Jay at 1.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 9.

j The State Depai'tment has issued j the copy of a!document circulated m Spain by German) propagandists which j th© State Department says is of unj doubted German origin. The document I says “Germans have taken incalculable I booty in France and Belgium as the jj result of the stupid stubbornness of th© I Belgium people continuing th© struggle jl after their defeat. Fines totalling 120,- ! 071,000 pesetas were imposed on weal- ; thy individuals and cities, this figure including fifteen thousand pesetas fines imposed on Alsatian children, who insisted on speaking French. More than fifty thousand British prisoners were taken, as against 124,806 Germans by the British hut it must b© remembered that the British treat their prisoners with notable kindness, while Germany treats British prisoners with extreme rigour, so that the Germans hav© secured a superion moral effect. ■Several thousand British prisoners died through disease and scanty food, and othors from accidents. If any neutrals are contemplating to side with the Allies, they had best take warning. j The statements were circulated he- j fore the offensiy© of 21st February. I The German Spanish propaganda do- * cument says Germany will not lose the j African colonies as British ministers declared they did not intend to increase th’eir hbldings of the British Empire-

ROUMANIANS QUEEN.

y( United Service Telegrams)

(Received this day ar 1.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM,' May 9.

German papers state the Queen of Roumanian lias announced she will refuse to recognise the peace, as she -prefers abdication to reigning in a German ruled country. Queen Marie’s children shall share her views, and never lost an opportunity of insulting the Germans.

KIEFF NEWS. -/ ( j (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) BERNEi May y. Kieff newspapers state anarchists at 'Moscow have secreted groat quantities of arms and ammunition including I mountain machine guns. Bolsheviks i vainly demanded their surrender, and I then stormed the munition depots, arrested and imprisoned four hundred anarchists. It is estimated there are six thousand anarchists in Moscow which is the headquarters of the organisation.

JAPAN’S SHIPS

WASHINGTON. May 9

It is officially announced that four Japanese ships, the first instalment of 250 thousand tons purchased or chartered by United‘.States from Japan have arrived at a Pacific port.