AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

LESSON OF FRENCH SUCCESS, SOCIALISTS VOTE FOR WAR CREDIT. Received Oct. 2fl, 5.5 piu. Amsterdam, October 28. The Social Bureaucrats' in t!ic Reichstag decided by a majority of 57 to 15, to vote for the new war credits. _ Colonel Moraht, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt, says tlie French success at Verdun signifies the strength, unity, and determination of the I'Vench troops, which the Germans must break. AN OFFICIAL REPORT Received October 29, 5.30 p rtf, Amsterdam, October 28. A German communique states that the infantry battles north of the Somme recommenced yesterday. The British attacked from the line Queudecourt to Losboufs, and the French from Morval. The attacks, which were sanguinary, were repulsed. There was heavy fighting at Verdun, where the French attacked from Thiaumont Forest and Fort, and also from Fumin Forest, but were repulsed with heavy losses. The Austro-Hungarians have captured several heights on both fides of Dornawatra. We captured the Roumanian hill, a, position south of Prnsso. Tlie pursuit at the Dobrudjia continues, tlie enemy not resisting. A NEW AUSTRIA* CABINET \.l Received Oct. -20, 11.30 p.m. Vienna, October 2D. Official.—The Finance Minister, Stonkoerbcr, ha 3 been asked to form a Cabinet. - Wi DOMINION'S PART. 23RD. REINFORCEMENTS* ■SironcCG ON VOLUNTARYISM. STATEMENT BY MINISTER i By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 28. As it is not possible, owing to the machinery preparations being still incomplete, to take a ballot at the present time, it has been decided to rely on voluntary recruiting to piovide the men to meet the requirements for the Twenty-third Reinforcements, which includes all shortages for previous drafts. The' quota for each recruiting district has now been based on the estimate prepared by tlie Government Statistician of the men remaining in the first division of the reserve, and the district staffs of the 1 Defence Department, with the assistance of local committees, have been asked to find the men required by November 11, when tho Twenty-third Reinforcements Is due to mobilise for training. The Recruiting Board has been advised that the Government Statistician will then be in a position to take a ballot under the Military Service Act, and in view of that information- ife has decided, and Cabinet has approved, that voluntary enlistment for * tha twentyfourth draft is to cease on November 11, and a ballot is to be taken' in the ensuing week to make good any shortage in the reinforcements then existing. This means that recruiting fcr the Twenty-fourth Reinforcements will close a month before the draft goes into camp, so as to allow time for a ballot to be taken and appeals to be lodged and heard, and the full strength of the reinforcements" completed before mobilisation. Voluntary enlistments will then be accepted for the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Reinforcements until December !), when voluntary enlistment for the Twenty-fifth Reinforcements will cease, and a ballot will be taken to make good any shortage. It must be understood, however, that if a man who volunteers while the ballot is in progress is called up to make good a shortage, his voluntary enlistment will be cancelled, and he will thereupon be under tho orders of the Defence authorities as a soldier of the Expeditionary Force. This system will continue for all subsequent reinforcements. Voluntary recruiting for each draft will ceass one month before the draft is due to go into camp for training, in order to allow time for any shortage to be made good by means of a ballot. J. ALLEN, Chairman of Recruiting Board.