AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

! RESULT OF WAR COUNCIL. PROFESSOR PROSTITUTES HIS INTELLECT, GROTESQUE STATEMENTS. Amsterdam, Sopt. 14. r A war council at the Kaiser's head- ' quarters discussed a great Balkan of- 0 fensivu. Germany is prepared to send v 200,000 and Austria 100,000 men. 1 Rome, Sept. 14. v Bohemian Nationalists demonstrated 1 in Prague on Sunday, demanding indc- c pendence. The crowd took refuge in ® buildings, which the Germans attacked with macliinc-guna or burnt down. ' London, Sept. 14. 1 German propaganda to neutrals con- * tain an article by Professor von Lizst, an eminent law authority, justifying the x execution of Captain Fryatt. s Newspapers liberally reprint the Ivol- ' nisch Volko Zeitung's so-called "Interviews from Egypt." Among the most giotesque statements is one that when the Australians and New Zealanders were prdcred to withdraw from Egypt riots and mutinies' broke out, which were suppressed tardily and with great cost. The rebels were quieted with all manner of promises. The English higher command assured the Anzacs before they started for the front that when they conquered the enemy countries they would live like lords at the enemy's expense, and, with countless beautiful women and sweet wine, would hold victorious revels. KAISER RULED BY 1 HINDENBURG. j ENVER PASHA'S IMPORTANCE. | Rome, Sept. 14. Acting 011 Hindenburg's advice, the Kaiser in future will not interfere in military affairs. New York, Sept. 14. The New York Times Berlin correspondent says that the presence at the German eastern headquarters of Enver ; iPasha, where King Ferdinand is also a , guest, is regarded as highly significant , for future, political and military develop- j ments. Enver Pasha has 'just completed , an extensive inspection of the Turkish ( positions on the Russian and Roumanian fronts, and this fact gives rise to much speculation. 1 ] REFUGEES FROM TRANSYLVANIA. 250,000 IN BUDAPEST. RELIEF FORTHCOMING. • 'Received Sept. 15, 7.15 p.m. London, Sept. 14. The Morning Post's correspondent at Budapest states that the whole of tlw 1 Hungarian nation is engaged in housing and succoring refugees from Transylvania, numbering a quarter of a million. The wealthy arrived penniless and half starved. Official aid was unavailable. An unknown man stood at the railway station with a bundle of bank-notes and handed oiie to every refugee, The Archduchess Augusta spends lier days at the station distributing milk to children and comforting the refugees. | FOOD RIOTS AT HAMBURG. I SEIZURE OF BELGIAN RAILWAY. Received Sept. .15, 9.50 p.m (Amsterdam, Sept. 14. iMost violent food riots occurred'at I Hamburg, l where large crowds raided the i butchers' shouting, "Down with > the Junkers, the people's torturers!" ; Numerous arrests were made. ? The German Government has seized the Belgian light railways and the chemin de fer Vicinaux. Thi3 action is > 6eriously impeding the transport of relief supplies. i BULOW'S PREFACE. 1 AMUSING, BUT NOT CONVINCING, Received Sept. IS, 10.45 p.i, Amsterdam, Sept. 14. Prince von Bulow, in 'his introduction to a book on the Kaiser, tremendously stresses that Britain is Germany's most dangerous enemy, and says: "In any future alliance with her we must be the' stronger paity.'' He significantly insists that Germany must expand towards the sea coast. * RHINE GARRISONS SENT EAST. ? Received Sept. 15, 10.43 p.m, Amsterdam, Sept. 14. It is reported that great numbers of 1 troops comprising the Rhine garrisons 6 have been suddenly; despatched eastward.