AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

HAMBURG IN SEMI-REVOLT. CONGER RIOTS AND PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS. SYMPATHETIC POLICE. Received August 24, 10 p.m. London, August 24. The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent reports that for a week past Hamburg has been in a state of semirevolution. The exasperated population are breaking out in hunger riots and peace demonstrations. The police are unable, perhaps are unwilling, to quell the disturbances. Before the soldiers arrived, the angry crowds forced their way into several of the principal streets, smashing windows. .Vigorous militSlry measures were adopted to restore order.

DISGRUNTLED BAVARIANS. COMPLAIN OF HEAVY LOSSES. i Amsterdam, August 23. Socialist newspapers cornMain that the General Staff is sending Bavarian regiments to the posts of greatest "danger. The Bavarian casualties on the Somtne are far greater than those «f other regiments. THE PIOUS HUMBUG. GERMANY FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY! Received August 24, 8.40 p.m. Amsterdam, August 23. At a. German bishops' confeience a message wits despatched to the Kaiser praying that the Emperor and people •would hold out. The Kaiser replied: "God's justice will.give the victory to the Germans, who are fighting for Jilerty and existence." A NEW ZEPPELIN. Received August 24, 11.40 p.m. London, August 23 Mr. E. S. Montagu stated that he had be«>n informed of a new Zeppelin, with s two million cubic feet of "as capacity, Vngth 780 feet, beam SO feet, maximum speed 60 miles per hour, with a radius when half loaded of 3COO miles and a carrying capacity of five tons. She will be able to 'ascend 17,000 feet, and will tarry a complement of 35 men.