AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

DANES THREATENED BY GERMAN PRESS. Received August 21, 10 p.m. Copenhagen, August 21. The semi-offieia' Nord Deutseher furiously attacks the Danish press for giving publicity to Entente news and views and disregarding the German standpoint. The paper is indignant at the alleged continuous attacks upon Germany and the servile demonstrations of sympathy for the Allies, and conveys a covert threat to Denmark. "OUR GREATEST ENEMY." BRITISH DOGCEDNESS ACKNOWLEDGED. Received August 21, 10 p.m. Copenhagen, August 21. The Frankfurter Zeitung declares: "Tho British are just as pertinacious politically as they arc enormously persevering in military matters. The British are in every respect our greatest and most active enemy. Therefore the fighting on the Somme is the most decisive and the most important to us." The paper recognises that history teaches conclusively that Britain will not yield through fatigue before being beaten and exhausted.

FOOD FOR GERMANY. HUNGARY AND BULGARIA LOOKED TO. Received August 21, 5.0 p.m. Rome, August 20. Count /on Batocki is visiting Hungary and Bulgaria, with a view to arranging for a supply of foodstuffs for Germany. INTERNATIONAL MURDER. ORAZY. GERMAN AGITATORS ' Washington, August 20. The Sock.] Democrats of Germany have iiecretly circulated thousands of copies of an anti-submarine and anti-Covern-nient circular, in which they denounco the U boat war as international murder. Thi circular "Cra..y German Imperialistic agitatbrs stupidly provoked a world war and then added futile submarining. In the spring of 1915 our braggarts were cracking jokes and threatening to starve England by submarines. This was utter foolishness. A blockade would require a hundred submarines for every dozen fee Germans are able to build, and even then it is doubtful if it would succeed. The campaign culminated in sending hundreds of women mid children to a grisly death in the Lusitania, causing a world-wide cry of horror. The Governccnt promises Germans victory, but it is more than likely that we shall repeat the experiences of Verdun, where 'more than a hundred thousand Germans liave ' been driven to death in order to take a couple ot unimportant positions."

THE RUSSIAN BEARf ■'SURPRISES THE AUSTRO-GERHANS. London, August 20. A correspondent at Amsterdam says that Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingfurst, speaking at Berlin on the Emperor Franz Josef's birthday, said that the AustroGerman successes in 1915 justified the belief that the war was ending; but, while eagerly watching tlfl; Western offensive a new thunder-cloud burst with unforeseen violence in the East. The Russian bear was anything but slaughtered, and was pouring out an inexhaustible' torrent of men. equipped with the most modern weapons. Nevertheless, they might be reassured by their belief in an Austro-Gerniau victory.