AUSTRIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 12 September 1914, Page 5

AUSTRIA

DYING OF STARVATION", REIGN OF TLKROR EXISTg. EVERY VILLAGE HAS ITS GIBBET. Received 12, 1.10 a.m. '"'.j Milan, September 11, , Refugees state that a reign of terror exkts in the Serb provinces in Austria.. There is a gibbet in every village, and every day are hung thereon fresh corpses. Hardly a Serb leader has escaped arrest. Sopilo, Nationalist leader in the Diet, is believed to have been executed. The most prominent citizens are held as hostages. The people in (many of the poor districts are dying of starvation. if ~

EKORMOG.S NUMBERS OIF " WOUNDED. Rome, September 10. 1 A Vienna dispatch states that all t,bo available hospitals, hotels, public Wildings and schools are unable to .accouu ,'modato the Austrian wounded from Pol« and and Galieia, ARMIES DISORGANISED. ■ - j SERB AND MONTENEGRIN \ t INVASIONS. , • Petrograd, September If*.Fugitives from the Austrian."wrtitj;.. 'fitate that their .lassos were enormous. (NfunwroAis regiments were cconjpletely decimated. The Austrians fear a revolt in littkowin-.i. ■Hungarian, sympathy for Russia its increasing. Private correspondence confirms the disorganisation of the Austrian armies, and state that the Austrians are using -explosive bullets. , The Servians are invading Bosnia, crossing the river Save in the north, while the Monteii'grins expect to con-, quer Herzegovina from'the south.. . ,[■

AX.G RY WIIII G I3UUNY. '. London, September An ex-Vienna correspond-nt state* that it doubtful wlieth<r tlie Kaist'r divulged the whole of In* plans to the Austrian Emperor, win) ' would never'have consented, to war but for the .Serajera murder. The Viennese are becoming bitter against Germany.

A CANARD DENIED. G3MPEROR OiF AUSTRIA WELL. ' Copenhagen, September 10. Official advices I'ronn Vienna stat« that the Emperor is in good health, THE SEIZURE OF LEMBEBG. '"'*; Amsterdam, September 10. Tho Vienna Zcituiig says that Uiej Russians only seized Lemtoerg because the Austrians were surprised; also re-. Bistanee would have exposed- Oict towil to bombardment. The Frankfort Gazette urges the r-e» lief of the people iu East Prussia, whoso condition is terrible owing to the Bus* sian invasion. i(< ' ' GALLING LOSSES IN GALICIA. V -- * ' Vienna, September 10. It is officially admitted th-it the Arcft. duke- Frederick ha,, lost 1-20,000 men, about one-fourth of 3iis command, in the recent battle ; n Galicia. m£ ] - *~- •*= — ■■ ;'£!! WHOLESALE DESERTIONS.

Received 12, 1.10 a.m. [ Rome, September 11. I. It is stated that, deserters from the Austrian Army arc increasing daily, especially on the Roumanian frontier. .Many have gone to Switzerland. j. The average from Slav regiments ha 4 reached 31 per cent. HOLLAND'S ANXIETY. FRONTIER TOWNS AND PORTS Iff A STATE OF SIEGE. Amsterdam, September 10. * The German operations in northern • .'Belgium are the cause of increasing anxiety, A Royal proclamation hag jbecn issued declaring all Dutch, port* and all frontier towns and villages to a state of siege. The German official news agency :.': flooding tie Dutch newspapers with free telegrams. These state that Japan has offered to land half-a-million troops if tho Frciieii cede Tonkin and Annam. to. [Japan,