CENTRAL POWERS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 96, 25 July 1916, Page 5

CENTRAL POWERS

RAIDS ON HUNGARY. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Vienna, July 24. Die Zeifc states that numerous detachments of Russian cavalry are raid.ng Hungary north and south of the Borsa, and forty miles south-east ft Marmorosszigett. There is no Russian confirmation of :he news, which may be intended to break the bad news which hitherto has deluded the Austrian public. SCARCITY OF MILK AND BUTTER. Amsterdam, July 24. A Gorman official statement says that the scarcity of milk.and buttei is due ho the cattle having diminishsd by two millions since 1914. The back of foodstuffs has caused the loss of an enormous number of cows. GERMANY’S DEATH DANCE. Rotterdam, July 24.

Max Obson, Headquarters correslondent of the Vossiche Zeiuing, states: “Our losses are heavy. The iiiemy also suffered fearful losses, but re do not blind our eyes to the new nourning which has come over the Jermans., We have been shaken by turning pain as the new streams of German blood are flowing, and we recognise our powerlessness. After wvo years of war the angel of destruction is passing over the ranks of he German army with merciless fury, is if the death dance had just begun, t is now a question of life or death o our nation.”

A German officer, interviewed by the v Voseiche Zeitung, said: “We do lot know how great the English relerves are. The length of the offeniive will depend upon this. Our posiions are badly knocked about, but he dug-outs and shelters luckily icld out very well. Finally the rainy weather came and helped us.”

THE HUNGARIAN PEACE PARTY.

London, July 22. The Morning Post’s Budapest correspondent reports that one of Karolyi’s followers states that the new independence Party seems to be seal re and independent of the Hungarian army, and that an immediate jonclusion of peace would save the rountry from invasion and further sacrifices. He adds: “We are not going to have Hungary any longer made the dupe of Austro-Germany.” Karolyi’s home policy includes the distribution of State and clergyowned land among tho peasantry.