AUSTRO-GERMANY.
HOLLWEG ON THE SITUATION. WHAT MIGHT AND MIGHT NOT HAPPEN. Received July 30, 5.30 p.m. Zurich. July 29 Herr von Bethmann Hoi!v, eg, in a recent conference with his party leaders, delivered a speech in which he hinted that it might be increasingly difficult to maintain their present lime from the Baltic to the Pripet marshes, especially if Britain threw the whole weight of her new armies into 'the scale If the Germans could hold their present lines, the Chancellor pictured Britain wearying of the struggle, and the Entente becoming a mere name. Perhaps before the end of the year Russia would be without western help, and could not then carry on. Italy could be bought off with the cession of the Trentino, and peace might then be arranged by giving up Belgium and 'Northern France, also a portion of Alsatia in the Vosges in return for Belgian i'nd French Congo.
HOLLWEG'S PROPOSALS. THE POSSIBILITY OF DEFEAT. Received July.29. 5.5 p.m. Zurich, July 20. Herr von Bethmann-Holhvcg says that Britons and Boers should he mollified by the giving up of South West Africa, and Germany relinquishing New Guinea and the adjoining islands to gratify Australia, in return for British East Africa, and, possibly, Angola. Germany would then settle with Russia's demand for increased territory in the Courland and Vistula, by relinquishing the test of Pussian Poland, in return for a commercial treaty. On the other hand, if Germany is forced to retire from her present lines, then she would declare the independence of Poland, and secure Polish military support. PRUSSIAN CASUALTIES, Received July 30, 5.5 p.m. Zurich, July 29. Official: Prussian casualty lists show that 24,884 officers and 1,317,093 men have been killed. SEIZURE OF CEREALS, Received July 29, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, July 29. Herr Handelsbland, Minister of Agriculture, lias intimated that it is necessary to seize all wheat, oats and barley, and has ordered the purchase of all corn in the fields at fixed prices. —
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1916, Page 5
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