AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMANY'S LAST HOPE, x CENTRED ON HTNDENBURG. - UUOICTNSS MADE TO ORDER; • ' London, Sept. I. Berlin is beflagged and windows dis,tlay garlanded portraits of the Kaiser, lindenhurg, and Ludendorff. The newspapers, including Colonel Woraht, the Vossiche Zeitung, and the {Frankfurter Zeitung, express immeasurable joy at the placing of the whole command in the hands of the national hero. They warn the people implicitly to trust him in what are admittedly critical times. The Anstro-Hnngarian newspapers are distinctly depressed. Mr. MacAlpin telegraphs from Paris that a Grand Council has been held. Iferr von Bethmann-Hollweg attacked. 3'alkenhayn in the press, aiming at the overthrow of the most violent ol the war ]»rty. The mutual detestation between Bethmann-Hollweg and Falkenhayn w»9 notorious, while Hinderiburg iwas'never a favorite with the General Staff, which he constantly attacked as carpet soldiers. Falkenhayn's disgrae* JoeaM the defeat of the extremists, including the Crown Prince, Herr Helfferich, 'Admiral Tirpitz, and most of the General Ptaff. ' A correspondent at Amsterdam states (that the feeling in Germany may be "Tf Hindenburg cannot save •is we lie lost." However, there are piany- indications that the more enlightened Germans realise that the game is Op, and their only hope is that Hindenpurg may perhaps avert an overwhelming disaster. . A TONIC FOR GERMAN MORALE. New York, Sept. 1. The Benin correspondent of the New JTork Times says that the Kaisei gives Hindenburg practically dictatorial powjersv The appointment is designed to act •s a tonic for the morale of. the German nation.

THE WAR LOAN. A PITIFUL APPEAL. Received Sept. 3, 5.5 p.n». The Hague, Sept. 2. An appeal is featured in every German newspaper in connection with the new war loan. It declares the war has reach<nl that stage when decisive events may J«e expected. The enemy's efforts aie approaching high water; now, more than •rcer, Germany must employ her whole efforts for the coming final struggle. This loan, more, than earlier loans, will decide fthe approximate length of the war. The •■■nemy fights with rancour, cowardice, illegality, hypocrisy and mendacity. G«" *ianv must answer with hard 'blows