AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

WAITING FOR A VICTORY. J . PROMISED BY HINDENBURG. .HUNGARIAN SESSION" SUSPENDED. deceived Se.pt.. 11, 5.50 p.m Berne, Sept. 10. The Hungarian Parliament has adjourned till September 28, when the Reichstag will re-assemble. Field-Marsihal von Hindenburg has promised a striking .vijtory to the Kaiser, who thereupon telegraphed to Count Tisza, who suspended the session. i GERMAN FINANCE. PAWNBROKIXG METHODS, , London, Sept. 10. Subscriptions to W» fifth German loan should be buttressed by the Reichsbank, but the value of the mark is steadily depreciating in neutral countries, where our 27»/2 marks is equivalent to the British pound, compared with 20 normally. As as example of the methods of the German war loan societies, it may be said 'that war scrip worth twenty marks will 'be given in exchange for a suit of clothes, and the moment the certificate for this is passed to the Reichsbank it is reckoned equal to gold, and becomes the basis of the legal cover for sixty juarke in Reichsbank notes. AIRSHIP DEPOT DESTROYED. Copenhagen. Sept. 10. It is reported that a large airship depot at Frankfurt has been burned down and four Zeppelins and fifteen aeroplanes destroyed. OFFICIAL CASUALTY SUMMARY". Received Sept. 11, 7.30 p.m.' London, Sept. 10 The Press Bureiu states that the German casualties reported during August totaa 210,957, whereof 42,732 were killsd, 41.C74 prisoners and missing. The teal casualties now are 3 370,134, whereof £32.103 are dead, and 309,700 prisoners and missing. . %