Austria.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 5 January 1915, Page 5

Austria.

MYSTERIOUS MOVEMENTS. GERMAN TROOPS IN SOUTH AUSfTRM< MENACING THE ITALIAN FRONTIER. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 4, 5.40 p.m. London, January 4. Amsterdam reports that 210,000 Germans passed through Cologne, castwards/

Austria boasts that site is arranging to despatch an army, of a million men to Servia. A German army corps has been instructed to occupy Riva, in Trcntino (Trent district). The explanation given is that the Austrians on the frontier arc deserting and escaping ifi hundreds over the passes, 'but the explanation is considered insufficient to account for the action taken.

"SUN SHINES NO LONGER." SACRIFICES WILL BE GREATER, wt _ 9 AUSTRIAN PRESS ANTICIPATES DEFEAT. Received 4, 7.15 p.m. Vienna, January 4. . The Reichspost, in a New Year article, says: "The war is a terrible and severe fight against overwhelming forces of men and money, whose fleets and forts command the sea and the traffic with' many neutral States." The Zeit, in its New Year article, saya the cost to Austria will be still greater in its sacrifices of blood and treasure. The Arboitor Zeitung wrote that when the war was begun the sun shone his assurances of glorious victory. The sun shines no longer, but the mountain of losses rises higher and higher.