AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

PREACHING TO ORDER. RAISER'S CHAPLAIN SCOLDS THE PEOPLE. Received August 17, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam. August 10. Jlv Kaiser's chief chaplain, Pastor has returned to the West .front. He preached an indignant sermon in the Berlin Cathedral, denouncing the so-called grumble of wives, and declared that critciam and disputings were [imperilling Germany. He especially de:noUnced the complaints regarding dear food, short rations, and Prusso-Bavarian recriminations. The: Kaiser clearly inspired the seraoto. V FRAUD AND BRIBERY, NUMEROUS ARRESTS. Received August 17, 7.15 p.nfc Rotterdam, August 17. The Berliner Tageblatt states that tearly 100 arrests hare been made in Berlin .and Prussia in connection Vith. extensive grain frauds. Large Quantities lave been sent to Berlin branded "machine parts," and potatoes have been sold at 300 per cent, profit. An innkeeper's wife, among those arrested, possessed 100,000 marks for the purpose Bf bribery, v AUSTRIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER. *r- , ' ' ' USEE'S SWOLLEN-HEADED . VASSAL. Received Aogu&t 17, 7.15 p.m. f Paris, August 16. Newspapers regard the appointment of Count Andrassy, aa Minister for Foreign JAffairs for Austria, as the unification of the Central Empires' armies and policies lb Serman hands. They describe Count Andlteey as the Kaiser" clinging swol-Jen-headed vassal. iPOD SHORTAGE AND FAMINE PRICES. v Received August 17, 7.15 p.m. Paris, August 16. The Journal gives details of German Mod troubles. The ordinary meal consists of corn, soup, slice of i, salmon, spinac, and gruyere. Half a bottle of wine costs nine marks, two slices of sausage five grammes, butter two marks. At the people's soup kitchens forty pfennig will buy a litre of •eup or meatless stew. AUSTRIA'S PLIGHT* JPEACEWTTH ITALY DISCUSSED. deceived August 17, 7.15 p.nL Amsterdam, August 17. Reports from Vienna state that two important Cabinet meetings were held yesterday, and discussed the question 6t a separate peace with Italy in orde" <0 devcto all efforts against Riuajfr. POLAND'S FUTURE. ' London, August 16. It is reported from Vienna that Aus- . .ia bag decided to confer self-govern-ment on Poland and to release a large hiugber of interned Poles. 31 JEE TRUTH STINGS. Berne, August 10. irtin-Germans have petitioned for the ruppression of Theodore Wolff, the editor of the Tageblatt, on the ground that be is exercising a disheartening influence 19n industrial and financial interests. JHE KAISER A SAINT WOULD BE. Received August 17, 8.15 p.m. Amsterdam, August 16. The Cdtogne Gazette states that the uaiser it visiting Cologne. Acknowledging the crowds' salutations from the widov of a train, he said: "Go to church everybody, and pray for victory and a Inexorable peace."