AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

HERR HARDEN'S WARNING. TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE THE WAR IS WON. London. August 17. Herr Maximilian Harden, in an article in the Zukunft, which has been suppressed by the German authorities, says that Germany's worst enemies are the braggarts who are trying to make Germans believe that the war is won. The hour has not yet come for Germany to divide the world and settle the future of nations. Who can promise if the Russians arc now driven back that they will not return as formidable as ever next spring? France is still anxious with .••Silicons fury and resolution. Angiogram* has declared the Somme offensive :u be only a fragment of the coming .•veat offensive. Only the future can .miuw whether this is an empty boast. A PEACE PETITION,. Amsterdam, August 17. Seventeen- thousand signatures were appended the first day to the petition of Breslau Socialists for a speedy peace without conquests. AGREEMENT WITH SWITZERLAND. Berne, August 17. A wireless message states that commercial negotiations between Germany and Switzerland have been resumed. The Germans are anxious to reach an understanding before the Allies commence their general offensive. COUNT ANDRASSY'S DEMAND. Rome, August 17. According to the Stampa, Count Andrassy demands certain guarantees before he succeeds Baron Burian, which the Emperor refuses.