AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

WAR LOAN RAIDS. ARREST OF SOCIALIST DEiPUTY. Copenhagen, August 27. German depositors of foreign and even Danish securities here have received from the Berlin Government orders to convert them into the new wai loan scrip. London, August 27. Hoffman, a Socialist member of the Prussian Landtag, has been arrested for distributing circulars urging all workers in the Empire to declare a general strike. GERMAN DREAMS OP CONQUEST. A TALL PROGRAMME. Received August 28, 8.45 p.m. Paris, August 28. Le Figaro, by quotations from Qerman writers, shows that Germany prior to the war, contemplated the conquest of South America, firstly by immigration, secondly by commercial expansion, and finally by arms. It had already been arranged to cede to England Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia, retaining to herself the Argentine, Chili, Uruguay and Paraguay. Germany also proposed to tfede her Central African republics. REVENTLOW'S RAVINGS. ALLIES AIM AT DESTROYING GERMANY. Received August 28, 7 p.m. London, August 27. Count Reventlow, in the Tages Zeitung, is extremely indignant at the British suggestions regarding the abolition of the Kaiser. He says there has always been a tendency of British policy to undermine firmly established monarchies by deposing or crippling rulers who are no mock sovereign?. Hy admits the Allies would not shrink from the Kaiser's punishment, and warns the Empire to take the suggestion seriously. The real object of the Allies i 9 to destroy Germany by overthrowing the a)onnrchical foundation. WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT.

SUBMARINES AND AIRSHIPS. Received August 28, 7 p.m. London, August 27. The Daily Mail's correspondent at Amsterdam reports .that Austrian newspapers denounce the Berlin journals' lying tone, the Arbeiter Zeitung remarking: "Have we really reached that stage requiring our courage to be maintained by such fabrications?" In the Tages Zeitung Count Zeppelin iFTites beseeching the utmost use of submarines and airships, "otherwise serious misfortune must befall us." DISCOXTEXT INCREASING. London, August 28. The Times' correspondent at Amsterdam sayt that Het V-olk publishes and guarantees the accuracy of the traveller's statements that no one in Germany hopes any longer for a great victory, but for a reasonable and speedy peace. There have been great demonstrations repeatedly in Berlin and elsewhere. Recently the Alexander Platz was crowded by a demonstration against Dr. iiiebknecht's sentence. Shots and sword thrusts from the police led to its abandonment'. There were many victims. Great strikes have jeeurred in Siemens and other factories. The attitude of the Berlin workers is rebellious, .and elsewhere the spirit of profound discontent it steadily increasing. ALLIES' SUPERIORITY ADMITTED. Paris, August 27. A semi-official note in the German newspapers attempts to reassure the public regarding the Franco-British offensive. It says:— "France and Britain have used against us everything they possess in the way of men, guns and ammunition, and the only result, after a fight of 4S days and enduring the heaviest sacrifices, is a bending in of the line reaching at the most pronounced point to half a centimetre (one-fifth of an ijch) on a map. "The worst that could happen to us is thalj we might be obliged, as on the Maine,-to abandon a portion of the conquered territory in order to straighten the front and enable us to offer, in well organised positions two centimetres eastwards, the same resistance as we are maintaining at the Somme." This is tihe first German semi-official admission of the .possibility of the abandonment of the present linear