AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

MUNITION STRIKERS.

MILITARY FIRE AND KILL 700. Received Oct. 12, 8 p.nV Zurich, Oct. 12. Secretly conveyed information from Austria states that 24.000 munition factory hands' struck at Cyech. Soldiers tired upon them and killed 700. COST OF LIVING. "FORCED TO PEACE THROUGH HUNGER." Amsterdam, Oct. 11. Count Karolyi, in the Hungarian Diet, pointed out that the cost of living for a family of five in Germany had increased during the war period !>5 per cent., compared with 218 per cent, in Hungary. He continued: "We shall probably he forced to peace through lack of nourishment. It is vain to conquer provinces and obtain military advantages if the population has nothing to eat. If famine forces us to make peace it would be shameful and disastrous." THE GERMAN WAY, OBVIOUSLY INACCURATE FIGURES. London, Oct. 11, The German official lists of casualties reported to September total- 3,556,000, including 817,000 killed, 249,90" missing, and 178,860 prisoners, but not including naval and colonial casualties. AGAINST HOLLWEG. MAJORITY IN REICHSTAG. Beceived Oet. 12, 8 p.m. Berne, Oet. 12. The Snldeutsehe Zeitung states that Herr von Betbmann-Hollweg's opponents have a majority in the Reichstag, owing to ,thc accession of a large section of the Centre I'arty. It was resolved to move a vote of no-confidence at the earliest moment after the Reichstag reassembled: A PROFITLESS INVESTMENT Berne, Oet. 11. The German Foreign Office Budget show? that £10,000,000 has been spent on foreign press propaganda during the two years of war. Two millions have been spent in America and one million in Greece, and £1,200,000 in AustroHungarian newspapers. Amsterdam, Oct, 11. The Berliner Tageblatt announces that Branclenburgers of 00 to Go years, previously classed as unlit, have been reexamined. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. ' Received Oct. 12, 11 p.m. Amsterdam, 3ct. 12. A wireless Vienna communique states: We reoecupicd Czintseredaszi. The enemy's resistance in thu Georgeny mountains continues. The Italians in the Stippach region gained ground, but were afterwards driven back. „<, * '.