AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

COLOSSAL EFFORTS

REQUIRED,

PLUNDER HOPES.

Received Oct. 21, 5.50 p.m. Amsterdam, Oft. 21. T]if KolnisAe Voiks Zeitimg lms pub l'-Oici! a letter from General LudenbotlT, Viold Marshal von Hindcnburu's quarter-mastcr-Gcncral, declaring Unit it cannot be rkr.ird thit it require colossal effort.-! to destroy tin: enemy. Our hopes are based upon nn extraordinary sim,.!taiiccui: efforts on all fronts, and we will achieve it if we unite and are confidejit, not dissipating the army strength am 1 , quarrelling about the suitability of w.iy* cwl means.

VON KLUCK'S RETIREMENT.

HIS SERVICES EULOGISED, Received Oct. 22, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 21. Genera! Von Kluck has definitely retired from active service, as a result of shrapnel wounds. German newspapers euloaise him, describing von Klnek as the victor in the retreat from the Mnrne, which was a masterpiece of strategy. KAISER IN BOASTFUL MOOD. Received Oct. 22, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 21. Addressing liis troops on the West front, after paying tribute to the dead, the Kaiser said, "We who are living will fight further, till nobody ever dare again assail the German people's honor and liberty." He added that he hoped God would be with them. Newspapers comment on the use of this expression, instead of his usual "God is with the Kaiser." ANOTHER GERMAN LOAN Received Oct. 22, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 21. A German war credit for five hundred million sterling was proposed in the Reichstag to-day.

MURDEREP AT DINNER,

AUSTRIAN PREMIER'S FATE. Received Oct. 22, 5.5 p.m Amsterdam, Oct. 21. Count Rtuergkh, Premier of Austria, was murdered at his dinner table by the publisher of a review, named Adler. The tatter obtained admittance, and fired five revolver shots at Stuergkh.

THE AN|TI-HOLLWEG CONFERENCE, j A'msterdam, October 20. I Tlie newspaper Ccrmanh gives a full report of Count Reventlow's anti-Holl-neg conference. It states that one speaker conveyed Herr von BethmannHollwcg's reply to the demand by the conference for submarine ruthlessness, saying it could not yet begin. Geh elm rath Duisberg caused a sensation at the conference by announcing that ho was Field-Marshal Hindenburg's special envoy, and was instructed to request the conference to abandon the campaign of ruthlessness. Subsequent speakers declared that Hindenburg's wishes had decided them not to proceed further.

Count Reventlow then made a violent attack oj\ Horr von Bethmann-Hollweg, for falsely inspiring Field-Marshal Hindenburg, who had only heard one side.

AN OFFICIAL REPORT London, October 20. A German communique snya: Southwest of Swistelniki, on the west hank of the Narajowka, we stormed an important Russian position and took 2000 prisoners. Fighting continues on the Transylvania frontier. There is increased activity in the Dobrudja. Enemy attacks failed on the Cerna salient and at Nidge 'Planina, south-west of Lake Doiran. FALKENHAYN WOUNDED Zurich, October 20. General von Falkenhayu has been wounded in the leg and has relinquished the Transylvnnian command.