AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

"'MOST FIERCE AND OBSTINATE ENEMY." THE CHANCELLOR'S RECKLESS STATEMENTS. London. September 20. Herr von Bcthmann Hollwcg continued:—(ireat Britain is fighting for world supremacy witli an expenditure of "•trength unexampled in her history, breaking one internationl law after another. Great Britain is the most fierce ami obstinate enemy. A Herman statesman hesitating to line against this enemy every available instrument to shorten the war should be hanged. The Chancellor expressed disgust and contempt for the allegations that all means of fighting were not employed to the fullest possible extent. I.err Holhvog referred to the fighting. Up admitted that the British and French had ai-hicvu' successor pressing the German lines back, and inflicting heavy losses in men and material, but lie asserted they had failed in their jbject, the rolling' up of tho German front. He was confident they would never get through, even as little as the Russians on the east, while the i-< pulse of the Allied attacks in tin; south-east had frustrated the ereat Entente plan o f severing the connection of Germany with the Orient by the separate conquest of Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary. He, declared that the Entente's lust of conquest was responsible for the daily leaping up of mountain; of corpses, as Germany had already declared her readiness for peace. He asked if anyone :n Germany d"icd now demand peace in face of M. Brand's declaration. He indignantly denied that the Kaiser had exercised his influence with the Czar to prevent Russia's development in the 'Erection of freedom. The Chancellor denounced Britain as wanting more than booty. After bleeding Franco to death, making her Allies financially and economically her slaves, and subjecting European neutrals to her orders, Britain wanted to see Germany militarily boycotted and condemned to i'itsting sickness, in order to realise British world supremacy.

FRENCH CRITICISMS, ■'WEARINESS, ANXIETY, AND IMPOTENCE." Received October 1 5.5 p.n:. Paris. October 30. 51. Pichon describes Hcrr von Bethnan Hollweg's speech as a demonstration of weariness anxiety and impotence. T.e Petit Parish n states .that the speech admits in the most formal and clearest maimer the cruel embarrassment wherein the leaders af Herman strategy lend themselves, and wherein their armies, little by little, are being reduced to the (nonviable position cf being the world's laughing stock. , '

OFFICIAL REPORT. . SUCCESS EVERYWHERE lieceivcd October 1, .'i..') p.m. London, Sept. ,1(1. A German communique states that several Russian attacks on thf eastern front were repulse']. The Roumanian? are attacking in the Goerzeliy mountains anil from Fogaras Tlie enemy were repulsed at Goerzeliy, but further south our lefoiisivo troops evaded the attack. The Germans drove back the Roumanians ■ i nth of Hendorf. The battle south of Hemmanstadt ended In our favor. The I First Roumanian Army sustained heavy losses, and fled in disorder into impassable country at the Rathernthurm Pass, whore wo, by a bold inarch, caught thorn in *'"< '•ear and poured in a devastating fir.- ' j PRINCE RUPPRECHT'S VIEWS. EYEUY TOO STRONG. Bece'.vod October ], *>.» p.m. Amsierdam. :.»ept. .10. The Crown Prince p .upprocht, speik'.ns to the T'lieblatt'.: coni'-pondent. staes that one cannot predict lb,-, f'.itmv turn of "vents, ''but," no added, "we need not worry. All precautions have been taken. We can count on a very lon<; offensive, based on a prodigious use. of munitions, "or troops have done wonders, but the enemy i< too slronjr. lam sure the eremy wishes to riach a decision in mitt, but iio will fail, and will have to fight through another winter." ANOTHER MILITARY VICTIM Received October 1, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 30. It is reported that the German deputy War Minister, General .von Wandel, has been dismissed. FOOD SHORTAGE IX HUNGARY. Received October 1, a."> p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. "0. Count Ti?7a, in the Hungarian Parliament, stated that Hie food question i-i-ndeniably precarious, but the Government are convinced there are fiflicient supplies to prevent starvation,