IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 May 1917, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

GERMAN AIR RAID ON EASTERN COUNTIES. LONDON, May 25. The High Commissioner reports: Official. —Pour or five hostile airships raided the Eastern Counties last night, steering an erratic course, and N'mb* were dropped in the country districts; A man was died in a Norfolk village. The ■ ••■rial da.imge done war negligible ;-:a-O the raiders, but they escaped in thick clouds RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. jT ARMY REORGANISATION. NEW YORK, May 24. Tiie Tribune’s special correspondent at Petsrograd say® (reorganisation is nearing completion. The strength of the army has been restored. The Pet‘rograd revolutionary garrison have gone to the front. There is harmony among all the forces.

ROYALTIES PREMISES SEARCHED

Received 11.50 a.m. PETROGRAD, May 24,

Advices from Odessa state that men from the Black Sea fleet examined the premises occupied by royalties living in the Crimea, and the whole of the Dow-, ager Empress’ correspondence was seized. AUSTRIAN A-hF AIRS. AUSTRIA AND SEPARATE PEACE. NEW YORK, May 24. The Tribune states that the Env press Zieta announces that Austria is about to make separate peace. AUSTRIAN DEVILRY. ‘ ROME, May 24. Austrian aviators at Ferrara threw sweets containing the bacilli of cholera. The authorities are covering all wells, fearing that the Austrians will poison the water supply. POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL CHANGES. 9 - /,\ * * i,u LONDON, May 23, The Daily Chronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent, indicating forthcoming political and economic changes in Austria, says the Emperor Karl -has nominated sixty new members of the Austrian Upper House, five beinghereditary and the remainder life peers. They include Benedict, proprietor of the “Neue Erie Presse” (the first journalist to occupy a position in the Upper House); Dumba, ex-Anibas-sador at America; Deitrichtein exAmbassador at London; Conrad Hotzendorff, ex-War Minister; Barons Rothschild and Skodo. Nineteen of the new peers belong to the left, favouring Parliamentary Government. Twenty-three belong to the Autcratic Right and the remainder to the Middle parties.

THE PREMIER RESIGNS

LONDON, May 24

The Times’ Amsterdam correspondent .telegraphing on the 24th inst., says Count Tisza resigned the Premiership after a lengthy audience with the Emperor Karl. It is expected that Lichy or Serenyi will be asked to form a . Cabinet, The resignation is the outcome of German intrigues! Tisza opposing the Austro-German policy. The deciding factor was Hungarian electoral reform. AMSTERDAM, May 24.

Tisza’s resignation is a, crushing blow to German influence in AustroHungary. The Emperor Karl and his wife are credited with the responsibility for gaining German popularity thereby. <