GROWING IRRITATION BETWEEN AUSTRIANS & GERMANS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 55, 4 March 1916, Page 5

GROWING IRRITATION BETWEEN AUSTRIANS & GERMANS

HUNS COMMANDEER ALL SERVIAN FOOD

THE :■ AUSTRIANS LEFT TO GARRISON THE COUNTRY

ELEVEN BRITISHERS RELEASED BY AUSTRIA

A PURE ACT OF GRACE

(Reed. 8.40 a.m.)

LONDON, March 3

Major Aspland, returned from Serbia via Vienna, says there is growing irritation between the Austrians and Germans. The latter have requisitioned nearly all the food and livestock in Serbia, leaving the Austrians to garrison the country. The latter do not conceal theii disgust, and the Germans in their overbearing conduct are fast becoming disillusioned, many officers having declared they would welcome peace. Majoy Aspland remarks that there is a strong contrast between Austrian courtesy and German brutality. En route, German officers jeered at the Austrians assisting English swine. The American Ambassador, at Vienna, told Aspland that the Austrian War Minister said the Government wished to behave generously to the British. Major Aspland admits that his release with ten others, was a pure act of grace.