AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMANY VERY NERVOUS,

' fttEPABEvG DEFENSIVE LINE NEAR ■'DENMARK. / Hecelwd Oct. 4, 6.30 p.m. ' London, Oct. 3. The Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent instances the nervousness of Germany. All the vulnerable points In the pro-Danish districts of Schleswig are extensively billeted with Germans, and there are many troops in the Bkooby, Abkjaer, Branzstry andToftelund districts. Subterranean concrete chambers have been constructed on the ' northernmost defensive line. THE THREADBARE GAG* Amsterdam, Oct. 3. I Thk change of tone in German imperialists is most noticeable. A/the Kaiser's J>atiquet in of Field-Marshal von Hindenburgls birthday he prayed , for , God's "help to secure the freedom for Which the' Central Alliance was fighting. ANOTHER SCRAP OF PARER. Amsterdam, Oct. Z. A far-reaching Turko-Geraan com- . jnerciai agreement has .been concluded. ' . THE LOGIC OF DEMENTIA. ITc-w York, Oct. 3. „ A United Press dispatch from Berlin states that it is believed the efforts of the Von Tirpitz IParty to force r. re- , eunjptaon jf ruthless submarining against Great 'Britain will be defeated, as the • result of secret conferences of the Reichstag Committee now being held. Tine Tirpitz Party help to compel pub- - lie discussion when the Reichstag i* reconvened on - Thursday. Despite notiteable caution among former advocates of the National Liberal leader, ■ ;Herr Baseman, says: "The question of the-renewal of submarining must be decided by tie Foreign Office, the Ministry of Mario?, and the General Staff. We • wish to live at peace and friendship with America, but there is bitter feeling ' because America supplies ammunition to permit )vt enemies to continue the mm." " Eerr Basei-man declares that England is GermanyV. chief enemy, and hypocritically ' urges the United States to move to restore.the freedom of the seas for the purpose of favorably influencing 1 German-American relations. GERMANY'S RAW RECRUITS. Paris, Oct. 3. ""•■> French General Staff assert that f> -.-i-pans move 24 divisions weekly. . man's 191/ class have received sniv !•-« months' training and have 1> t.cntified on the Western battlefield*- le * 9 '* class, averaging sevenleen years, began entering the depots in June and are evidently destined for next «ununer's battles. ON ~ THE SEA. <JERMAX SUBMARINE LOSSES. .'■■.■- i - Paris, Oct.. 3. si. Bichon asserts that over a hundred German submarines have been bagged or gunk during the past twenty months. A WARNING TO NEUTRALS. London, Oct. 3. \ memorandum from the Allied Gov- - ernmente has been addressed to the Governments of lertain neutral maritime States. It urges thaf the principles of the law of nations applying to submarines are affected by special and novel considerations'therefore any place supplying a submarine warship far from its base becomes a base for naval operations. The Allies opine that submarines should be excluded from toe benefit of the rules, mder the law of nations, regarding admission and sojourn in the waters of neutral Powers. A belligerent submarine entering a neutral port should be detained. The Allies warn neutrals of the danger to theii submarines which Ate frequently in the war area.