Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 28 August 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

- ,mj I ,Bb THE ‘WESTERN FRONT. POSSIBILITY of abandonment fc . OF POSITIONS. ii' 5f ! SEMI-OFFICIAL ADMISSIONS.

Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Hi I { .....I- (Received 8.55 a.m.) Capetown, August 27. ' note in a newspaper attempts to reassifrC the public regarding the Franco-British offensive and says: France and Britain have used against us everything they possessed in the way of men, guns, and ammunition, and the only result after a fight of forty-eight days, during which they endured the heaviest sacrifices, was the bending in the lino reaching at the most pronounced point to half a ccntimetie on the map. The worst that could happen us is that we might be obliged as on the Marne to abandon a portion of the conquered territory in order to straighten the front and enable us to offer -in well-organised positions on two centimetres to the eastward the same resistance we are maintaining on the Sqmrae end. This is the first German • semi-of-ficial admission of the possibility of the abandonment of the present lines. general strike uroed. arrest OF PRUSSIAN SOCIALIST. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and ?v.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.55 a.m.) Amsterdam. August 27. Herr Hoffman, ’ a Socialist member of the Prussian Handing, has been arrested for distributing circulars urging all workers in the Empire to declare a general strike. THE new GERMAN WAR LOAN. (Received 9.55 a.m.) Copenhagen, August 2i. German depositors of foreign and even Danish securities here have received order from the Berlin Government to convert same into the new war loan scrip.

GERMANY FROM WITHIN. HOPES OF SPEEDY PEACE, ACCOUNTS OF RIOTS AND L , SCO NT ENT. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.10 a.m ) London, August 27. The Times’ correypondi.-ui at Amsterdam states: The Hetvolk publishes and guarantees the ..ccnrac el a traveller’s statement that now m Germany there' are hopes no longer' of a great victory bt of a reasonable and speedy peace. Great demonstrations occur repeatedly. in Berlin and elsewhere. Recently at Alexanderplatz there was a crowded demonstration against Liehknecht’s sentence, but police shots and sword thrusts led to its abandonment, there being many victims. Groat strikes have occurred at many of the factories, and the attitude of the workers in Berlin is rebellious, while elsewhere a spirit of profound discontent is steadily increasing.