AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.
; EMPEROR KARL AND HIS | CONSORT i -■ DIVORCE IMMINENT DISGRACEFUL MILITARY SCHEME Received 8.50 a,m, LONDON. July 8 The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent states that Milan papers allege the- divorce of Emperor Karl and the Empress Zita are imminent Her opposition to the bombardment of Italian towns is so strong as to have produced a real difference with Karl. Wk'& correspondent adds that a disgraceful military clique is largely responsible for the allegations, They are anxious to attribute the failure of the Piave offensive to the fact that Venice was not bombarded and raised to the ground by the guns of the Austrian warships As a fact the order was given to the Austrian fleet earlier 'to steam for an Italian port in the Adriatic and raze it to the ground as a preliminary to the Piave offensive, but Rizzo's feat averted the bombardment. . , ~
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Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1918, Page 5
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145AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1918, Page 5
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