AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1916, Page 8

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

PROFESSOR URGES RESISTANCE. CENTRALISING TRADE. Amsterdam, -Tilly 2S. Berlin professors have issued a manifesto urging national persistence in the war, holding on and fighting on until I Germany lias gained increased power and ' an honorable peace. Berne, July 2S. Horr von Bethmann-Hollweg is comnnmciating with the Socialist leaders with a view to merging German trade unions into a single centralised unicn. It is stated that the Chancellor's aim to acquire control of the union and of German Socialist newspapers, including Ihe Vorwaerts, and publish appeals to the workers not to listen to strike and revolutionary propaganda. PROHIBITION ON MILIC Berne. July 2S. Count Eatocki lias issued an order that the general consumption of milk is prohibited in Germany, all supplies bein<* reserved for infants and invalids.

USTJAL GERMAN CLAIMS,

Berlin. July 23. A communique says that after intense artillery fire British strong attack? near Pozieres and Fourenux Wood broke down completely. There was .litter hand-to-hand fighting at Longueval and Delville Wood. The enemy made no progress. Two Russian army corps vainly attacked six times on the Skro-bowa-Wygoda front. Russian attacks north-east of Swinichy temporarily gained ground. The Austrians drove the Russians- out of advanced positions near Poston'igty.