AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

! ■ j' | GERMAN BLUFF. || HAS SHE FRESH EtSEPTES: j 1 tondon, August 13. German communiques disclose that ) German troops are fighting alongside the ' Austrian* in the defence of the Car- ' pathian Dasses. Experts are discussing whence the reinforcements have been 1 drawn; meanwhile. M. Marcel Hutin, in ! the Echo de Paris, emphasises Germany's ' bluff, with von Wiegand as mouthpiece. ' ' that she is in possession of important fresh reserves. ' It. Hutin contends that the German lcinforcc-ments at the Somme are mostly . from the Verdun front and the neighbouring sectors, which are now quieter. 'l GERMAN TYRANNY. ! s A STRONG INDICTMENT, 1 New York, August 13. The New York Times states that Dr. Kohn, members of the Socialist group ■ headed by ITerr Hugo Haase in the 1 German Reichstag, made charges of the abuse of private soldiers by German officers. He said that the Crown Prince 1 was encouraging the use of alcohol in i the army, arj that the nourishment of ; , the soldiers was as bad as that of the : civilians. Sentences for military offences were extraordinarily severe and the ' German administration of Poland and i Lithuania Had destroyed much of the j sympathy for Germany. A merchant . was fined a hundred marks because he kept. his. books in Jewish instead of [ German. This gave the impression that 1 the administration of Poland was collecting large fines, not as discipline but ' as a source of revenue. Dr. Kohn indicated that disabled men ! were being kept in the service for political reasons and that soldiers were ' treated differently according to their ' political beliefs. ; He said that he recognised that Ger- ■ many was honestly trying fo treat > prisoncrs-of-war as she would wish Ger- ■ man prisoners abroad should be treated. ) This must be faithfully carried out. s The interning of English civilians-was 3 politically jinwise, and it was miendur- • able that the wires and children of in- - terned men should not be allowed to see s their husbands and fathers. It was bar- - barons to throw such children from the 1 schools. Each one was a monument to r Germany's barbarous method of warfare. Dr. Kohn believed that the reports r of the persecution of Germans in Engr land were exaggerated and partly in r vented by the press to rouse a spirit . against England. It was not right that ! the Minister of War, high officials and t army officers should receive large salart ies when millions suffered the pangs of ) hunger. Even in war the army could not lay aside its class character. It 3 was useless to urge that barbarism ; .should be prevented, so they must stop . the war. ; THE PENALTY OF FAILURE. - Berne, August 13. The Kaiser has placed General Mans teuffel, commander of the 14th Army Corps on the Somme, on the retired list, after tlie British successes. FOOD FOR POWDER. Amsterdam, August 13. The Berliner Tageblatt statis that the transport of Turkish and other Asiaties, including Arabs, to the European battle-fronts is proceeding on a great j scale. 1 : 1 SOCIALISTS MUZZLEQ, s Amsterdam, August 13.. The Social Democratic Party has published 111 the Vorwarts a protest at not being allowed to discuss the aims of the war, although, in order to make opinion in hostile countries as to an honorable c peace, the league has repeatedly been al- . lowed publicity. The party" requests . signatures to a petition desiring a peace t which will bring the friendship of neiglip bouring peoples by guaranteeing their 3 territorial integrity, independence and free economic developments. AEPJAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST ENGLAND. f Berne, August 13. k A wireless German message says tiat } the Federal Council approved the Chanj cellor's entire policy, after hearing the explan ition why unlimited submarine were still inadvisable. An inspired report indicates that the ChanJ cellor promised great aerial activity ! ?£>.inst England.