AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

SERIOUS CONDITIONS IN GERMANY A TRUCE WITH BRITAIN URGED. Formidable rioting. Received October 6, 12.40 a.m. London, Oct. 5. The Daily Telegraph is in possession of .information gained from reliable sources as to the conditions of life in Germany being serious. Meetings are being held in many parts urging a speedy peace. A member of the Reichstaa at one meeting urged a truce with 'England, even at the sacrifice of some of Germany'chief ambitions. Formidable rioting has taken place in several centres. The Cologne Gazette even prophesies a gloomy future, for Germany. BOHEMIAN TROOPS MUTINY. THE TROUBLE INCREASING. deceived Oct. 5, 5.40 p.m. ' K London, Oct. 4. The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent states that the Austrian Government's difficulty in maintaining loyalty among the Bohemian troops is increasing. There are frequent reports of mutinies and wholesale executions. It is rumored that Bohemian regiments were destroyed by exposure on the Russian front owing te being unprotected, and to their sometimes being abandoned i for days without provisions I ■ ' BRITAIN'S POWER REALISED. PREPARING THE PUBLIC FOR DEFEAT. \ London, Oct. 4 A correspondent at Amsterdam ...fates that the German press is pointing out that tiie campaign which smashed Serbia and opened up Constantinople caused Germany to under-estifnate the influence of British sea power on a Continental war. ( The Tages Zeitung declares that the Germans arc now realising how British sea power holds the Allies together, enabling the victorious prosecution of the war. The Volks Zeitung, similarly commenting, adds: "Germans never rightly estimated the strength of the British Empire, but. they are now unfortunately compelled to do so." New York, Oct. 4. The seriousness of the financial situation in Germany is emphasised bv a dispatch from Berlin, which states that the Empress has ordered all gold articles that can be dispensed with in the Court Treasury, and not possessing historic value, to be donated to tM> collection of gold articles for the purpose of increasing Germany's monetary gold supply. Many members of the Court are following the Empress's example. Copenhagen, 0ct..4. Urgent appeals are being made to Germans to give up gold coins, jewellery and ornaments. The Tageblatt reports that the Emprea is sending the Imperial family's ornaments to the Reichstag. Wealthy ladies are following her example. I TERRIFiC NAVAL ACTION. .\REDICTE-D BY A NEUTRAL Washington, Oct. 4. A neutral diplomat declares that before the winter is over there will be , a terrific naval action in the North Sea. I The Allies' drive has caused criticism in Berlin, and the German Cabinet, wishing to strengthen confidence, will precipitate another Jutland battle. Amsterdam, Oct. 4. The Germans have reduced the sentinels guarding the Dutch frontier from one to every hundred metres to one to every thousand metres, also, with the view of frightening away would-be smugglers and deserters to the enemy, dummy soldiers are arranged fifty metres apart on a portion of the front, which disappear at daybreak. On one section of the fron'.isr tliers are cavalrymen only. These steps are believed to indicate great lac!: of men. A Royal decree in Hungary orders ail deputies who ai\s on leave to attend the session or rejoin the army immediately. s_—FAMINE IN BELGIUM HUN'S gAY OF MAKING PEACJ. London, Oct. 4. 'A correspondent at Lausanne states that there is almost a famine in Belgium. There is no meat, butter, fish or potatoes, the Germans wishing to induce the Belgians to demand peace. DEPORTEES TO BE RETURNED. . Times -Service. , Received Oct. 5, 8.50 p.m. Madrid, Oct. 4. nomi-officjal: Germany has promised Spain that 2.160 women deported in exile from Roubaix and Turcoing will be returned shortly; also that all the other deportees will -be sent back when the harvest is over. THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR Received Oct. 5, 10 p.m. Petrograd, 0:':. 5. Tho late Roumanian Minister to Vienna, in an interview with the. Novoe Vremya, stated that the Emperor Franz Josef is comparatively' vigorous. fiumors of his suffering from senile infirmity and apathy are false. BELGIANS "PARDONED." Amsterdam, Oct. 4. General Volt' Bis'sfng, at the instance of Spain and America, will pardon 22 Belgians, including three women, sentenced to death for spying.