AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

ORGANISED PEACE RUMOR. CROWD;'. WILD WITH JOY. THE BUBBLE BURSTS. Received Nov. S, 10.40 p.m. Berne, Nov. S. Tho Morning Post's wires refer to extraordinary scenes that took place in Vienna. The newspapers, replying on German sources, published a rumor as to the likelihood of a. separate peace being arranged with Russia. Later many members of the Austrian aristocracy who were attending a race meeting in the afternoon professed to confirm the tidings on the strength of an alleged telegram from Count Visza, at Budapest, stating that the streets there were beflagged, and crowds were parading, wild with .joy. The news spread like wildfire in Vienna. Excited crowds collected at the Ministry of War, and at St. Stephen's Church, cheering themselves boarse, and parading at the Kartncrstrasse, until the Foreign Minister issued a denial.

THE POLISH SCHEME. GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS, *" London, Nov. 7. The German press comments reservedly on Poland. Few are fully satisfied. The Conservative newspapers blame the Chancellor for noi g'vmg opportunities of discussing the scheme before, its proclamation. They declare that the moment for (he announcement is ill chosen and fear it may cause unrest in German Poland, where closer t.inch wit!' the new State will be desired. The Liberals and Radicals fear that owing to the number of RiKsopliilps, better relations with Russia after the war will be hampered.

STUBBORN FIGHTING. RETIREMENTS ADMITTED. Received Nov. S, 10 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 7. Vienna, Official.—Near Tolgyas, after several days' stubborn fighting, t'hc Russians pressed back our front some kilometres on the frontier mountains. We evacuated the Mountain Bedul, cast of Kirlibaba. We drove the enemy from the heights and spurs of the Rotterturn Pass sector, taking prisoner 1000. A GERMAN REPORT. Received Nov. S, 5.5 p.m. , Amsteidam, Nov. 7. 'A Berlin official communique states: German air squ.idrons set fire to a great ammunition depot south-west of Bray. There were big explosions. The Russians gained ground at Tolgye. The Germans are progressing south of the Vulcan Pass and south-east of Rottenturn Pass, where we captured 1000 prisoners.