AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

ESTIMATE OF GERMAN TROOPS. 0,310,030 AVAILABLE Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.rt. London Nov. 2. Mr. Helaire Belloe,' writing in Land and Water, estimates the German troops at 5,000,000, apart from her reserves of 1,310,000, but including the cured wounded men who will be available by next November. There are, he states 123 divisions now on the west front, and 74 on the cast. Before Ger.tral BrusilofT's attack there were thrte German divisions at the Pripet and the Aegean, but there are now 41. Germany has increased her army in the field during 1910 at the expense of its fortunes in 1917. POSITION OF POLAND. GERMAN PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. Rome, Nov. 2. The Pope's appeal to the Catholic bishops of the world for assists nee in Poland has brought four million francs (£100,000). London, Nov. 2. The Daily Chronicle's Milan correspondent says that the Berlin and Vienna Governments have agreed on the Polish question, and a provisional Government will be established under German patronage. Austria undertakes to extend autonomy to Galieia. This solves the deadlock by which Austria refused to give up Galieia for incorporation in the proposed Kingdom of, IPoland unless Germany agreed to give up Posen for the same purpose. A GERMAN REPORT. Received Nov. 3, S p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 3. A German communique states—Under a violent. Frendi bombardment w,> evacuated Fort Vaux, after blowing up important portions. We stormed Russian positions on tile left bank of the Stokhod, and took prisoner 15C0. Constanza was bombarded frcm the sea. ' The Frcneli gained a minor advantage at Les Boeufs, and the Anglo-Fnncb attacks elsewhere on the Somme were repulsed. EVERY MAN AND WOMAN TO BE UTILISED. London, Nov. 2. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Mail states that Germany is preparing another*enarinons effort. It is expected that a mass levy will shortly be decreed, by which every man and woman will be called up and placed under State control. The military age limit will also be raised. Tile organiser, General Groener, will be vested with the widest powers. Tho Frankufrtcr Zeitung writes:— "There a« signs that • General LudenorfT's statement that every man and woman must be placed at the disposal of the military will now be carried out." FOOD SHORTAGE INCREASING. Zurich, Nov. 2. (Persons in close touch with Germany assert that the German food -shortage h growing worse. Many commodities are dear, sugar has disappeared in favor of saccharine, and the new potato crop is of poor quality. ' ; MORE BOASTING. Amsterdam, Nov. 2. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Mail states that Germany will make an effort in the spring which will coincide with a submarine attempt to interrupt practically the whole of the world's seaborne traffic. The German round-up of available labor in the occupied districts is connected with the spring effort.