AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

EFFECT ON ROUMANIAN ACTION. SONGARIANS GREATLY EXCITED. ■. New York, September 8. Karl Von Weigand, from Budapest, Wires \o the World that, owing to the most violent scenes in the Hungarian Parliament over the Roumanians' entrance into the war, Count Tisza was compelled to' accept a motion for debate on the advisability of the Hungarian and Austrian delegations meeting fit. session to discuss Austro-Hungarian foreign policy. . Couit Tisza's effort to explain that Austro-Hungarian diplomats and soldim did not anticipate Roumania's belligerency *as hbwled down, the deputies shout-ing, "You allowed them to give you orie under the ear." Count "Czernin,' Austro - Hungarian MinWter at Bucharest, was called a traitor and a diplomatic clown, and a demand ntade that Hungarians troops sh6uld.be recalled from foreign soil to defend Hungary. FALKENHAYN'S DISMISSAL.

; HOW: IT CAME ABOU^ •Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. Berne, Sept. 9. A .report from a well-informed German source states that General von Falkel&ayn's dismissal was due to a pre- , diction of the downfall of Bulgaria, in consequence of converging attacks by the ",< Allies- north and south interrupting the communication with Turkey. He advised, that the Balkan campaign should be abandoned, and that the Galician armies should fall back on a line through Bielostok and Brest Litovsk, along the river Bug, and take positions from Ornova to Dornavatra- against the RoumaniOn thi'West, General Falkcnhayn suggested the evacuation of France, and the creating of a new line from Nieuport, on the Franco-Belgian frontier, to Longwy, thence to- the Franco-German frontier, towards Alsace. He held tihat the teajasfonnation of the German strategy into a defensive campaign on a shorter front would paralyse the Allies, while persistence in the present plan would lead to disaster. IReld-Maishal von Hindenburg denounced the advance as childish, cowunworthy of the Germans. The Kaiser agreed and dismissed GenM»l von Felkenfhayn. CLEANING UP THE PLATES. Amsterdam, Sept. 8. lTie Lokal Anzeier solemnly discusses the influence of war on German tabic manners Formerly it was forbidden to wipt up even the most excellent gravy with bread. The scarcity of fats has produced a change. Of course it is ttill unnecessary to use the full dtrengthv and scour the plate till it thines; that ie inelegant. The fate of other customs is similar. It will today not disgust anyone when a bone is knawed discreetly. A hotelkeeper would have been surprised in 1914 if a guest had produced bread from his pocket; today, nobody minds; thus the war has educated us even "in manners. CROSSING THE FRONTIER FOR FOOD.

Amsterdam, Sept. 8. Crowds 01 women and children from BnsseMorf and Essen cross the Dutch frontier daily to buy food and tit it jjifere returning. AN OFFICIAL REPORT Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, Sept. 9. A communique states: Enemy infantry attacks on the Somme slackened during the day. An EnglWb local ente.-prise in the High Wood, and a night attack by th(- French at Denicourt. both failed. We regained a portion of the ground northeast of Fort Souville. Russian attacks between the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester proved futile. The enemy in the Carpathians threw strong forces into a position on the ' heights west ofSchipoband Dornavatra. We yielded before the pressure northwest of the, Kapul. Renewed enemy attacks at Dobrieh failed.