ABOUT THE ENEMY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17287, 30 September 1916, Page 9

ABOUT THE ENEMY

GERMAN WAR LOAN. 7. *‘ < -*'** NOT WANTED IN HOLLAND. Router’* Telegrams; AMSTERDAM. September 28. Hitherto no one has ventured to introduce the new German war, loan on the Amsterdam. Exchange, whereas the. French loan was successfully iiitroduced. : '■ !_ ~ .1; THE FIRE-EATERS. REVENTLOW’S SUPPRESSION. . HINDENBURG AGREES WITH ' < i CHANCELLOR}. Australian and N.Z Cable Association. (Reoeived September < 29, 6.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 28. A wireless, message from Zurich Bay* that it is now known in Germany that. Count Reventlow wns forbidden to.publish articles not approved by the censor. - Owing to his strong criticism of yon - Hindenburg in the “Deutsche Tages. Zeitung” the issuo was confiscated mid' tlie paper was not allowed to appear , for a whole week. The attacks on Germany’s idol were due to the official Press triumphantly announcing that von Hindenburg supported. von Beth-mann-Hollweg in rejecting unrestrained submarine frightfulness. All German • stalwarts expected von Hindenburg' to insist on the immediate renewal of un-der-water frightfulness. His acquiescence in tho Cliancellor’s moro prudent policy plunged the pan-German firrv eaters into a paroxysm of, despair and rage. , Count Reventlow’s attacks. ar,e , a symptom of the widespread outcry . against von Hindenburg and in favour of the policy of the iron hand. THE REICHStAG. NEW SESSION OPENED. THE CHANCELLOR’S ’SPEECH. (Received September 29, 6.15 p'.m.) AMSTERDAM, September 28. A Berlin Message says that the Reichstag was' crowded, all the diplomatists being present. Herr Kaernpf, the, President, opening the Reichstag, declared that the military, 'economic and political war was at its zenith.-Ini tho violent struggle on all fronts for a. decision, Germany’s position was 'satisfactory in every respect. He referred 1 to the Deutschland and the Bremen - and read telegrams exchanged with the Kaiser on the beginning of the third year of the war. Von Rethmann-Holl-weg then spoke amidst unbroken attention. .1 , Von Betlimann-Hollweg’s speech was ’well received. Ho bitterly assailed England- His tone, however, was less hopeful and loss confident than that of his former ‘utterances. The Chancellor, re-\ viewing Italy’s intervention, remarked: “ The thumbscrew used by England' - with'King Emanuel and with, recklessness against neutrals and our allies was too strong, and Italy was compelled,,! tp. yield, ller welfare on English coal and.money.” Ho. admitted that Italy also aspired to Balkan terri- : tories within the natural sphere of Greek interests. Discussing Rumania'sentry, tiio Chancellor declared that I King Carol , at the outset of tho war was altogether in favour, in accordance with his treaties, of joining Austria and Germany, but he was overruled and died of shock resulting from the consciousness that Rumania was a traitor to the - Central Powers. Tho Chancellor accused M.*Bratiano, after the fall of Lemberg, of entering, with- . out his sovereign’s knowledge,. into a" treaty of neutrality with Russia, and insinuated that M. Brntiano intrigued last August with the Entente to secure territory at Serbia’s ultimate expense.; The King, almost. up to the time of Rumania's intervention, gavo Germany • binding assurances of neutrality, find in reply to Germany’s warnings declined* to believe that M. Braticuo was binding himself to the Entente.