Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 18 December 1916, Page 2

Central Powers

POLITICAL CRISIS IN HUNGARY

CRUSHINC THE CZECHS.

Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N Z. Cable Association (Received S*.3o a.m.) Zurich, December 17. It is stated on the. auiimrily oi <>. well-informed source that Koerbcr’s downfall marks the triumph of tho Prussian! Magyar plan to exploit Austria, in renewing the Anstro-H ngar-

inn customs agreement and the commercial agreement with Germany, and thus securing the tree ad miss on of German manufactures and Hungarian farm produce into Austria. I here are indications that Germany is especially desirous of crushing the Cm eh economic organisation, which threatened to control Central Austria and even to invade Germany. EXCITEMENT IN BERLIN. WAITING ROUMANIAN SUPPLIES. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, December 17. The Daily To legraph’s Rome correspondent says that extraordinary precautions were taken in Berlin in view of the meeting of the Reichstag. Ihe gravest happenings were considered probable, owing to excitement among the hungry populace’, the people doping to see huge supplies of Roumanian cereals which have not yet arrived.