AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

WILFUL MISREPRESENTATIONS. HOLLWEG'S REPLY TO LORD GREY. Amsterdam, Nov. 10. Hon- von Bolhmann-Holhvcg, replying to \iscount Grey's speodi at the Foreign Press banquet on October 23, said Russia's mobilisation began the war. Viscount Grey's statement was based on the fact that the editor of the Lokal Anzcigcr. on July 30, 1014. falsely announced a German mobilisation. The Government immediately stopped the sale of the paper and denied the report. He detailed whr.t he described as Germany's enemies' annexation proposals, alleging Russian designs on Constantinople, with Great Britain and France guaranteed, and French designs on Alsace and Lorraine. He never proclaimed that Germany intended to annex Belgium. England joined the war because Germany's peaceful enterprise had become over-, .Treat. It was Europp'- unlucky fat' I that Great Britain favored French and Russian schemes of comjiic.' was not Prussiar militarism, but. fcdMidver fares' bemmmg-in policy that caused the war. When the war'was concluded and the immensity of the catastrophe •was realised there would be an outcry for peaceful settlements of future quar rels, and Germany would assist in that direction. ANXIOUS FOR PEACEUNCTIOUS TEUTON TALK. ' deceived Nov. 11, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam. Nov. 0. Tn the Reichstag, all parties welcomed Herr von Holl.vcg's declaration that Germany was willing to jo':i an international peace union. In reply to u Conservative spokesman, the representative of the Socialist minority pointed out that Viscount Grey never advocated the boycott or destruction of Germany. He also declared that peace was impossible if Belgium were reduced to a vn-?al State. The Prcismcm:c Zeitiing says now is the tima for the Entente, especially England, to >rcduee a pence programme. The Vorv.aerts hopes that Herr von Bcthmann-Holhvcg's speech will h»lp to dissipate the clouds of hostile distrust. CARPATHIAN LOSSES A VAST GERMAN CEMKTERY. London, Nov. 10. The 7-rorning Post's Budapest correspondent says the Hungariar National Committee entrusted with die care oi graves of soldiers reports thnt its re searches in the Northern Carpathians resulted in the discovery of 200.000 graves of Austrn-Hungarian mid German soldiers. The figures prove that over 250.000 were killed in the Carpathians in the winter of 1014-15, largely Hungarians. The news has cViused the greatest depression. The report says the Carpathians is a vast cemetery from Orsova to Uzsek Pass. Seven thousand men are employed in identifying the graves. The work must be completed before, the snows obliterate all traces. SOCIALISTS DEMAND PEACE. AN IMPOSING DEMONSTRATION. deceived ijov. 13, L.o \. .„. Zurich, Nov. 11, Socialist lenders headed a procession of 80,000 in the streets of Piesden and marched to the Ministry of the Interior, where a deputation demanded food, also an immediate pence, and desired the Government of Saxony to make representations to Berlin. The Minister admitted the justice of the complaints as to the dearness of food, but could lot act in Berlin in favor of peace. The procession proceeded to the Town Hall. It was orderly throughout. A BOASTFUL REPORT. ( ' Received Nov. 1-2, 5.5 .p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 10. A.German official report features tlr, activity of German airmen on -trie Somme, and claims to have shot i'.c,-;;n seventeen aeroplanes. It state?, that strong French attacks at Sa.i)Jy were partly repulsed in and it asserts that tha Russian lines near Skrobowa, on the eastern front, were stormed, 3429 prisoners being taken. A NEW ALSACE-LORRAINE.. Received Nov. 11, 5.5 p.m. London. Nov. 9. A correspondent from Amsterdam states that the Daae Frei fean the Polish proclamation merely creates a new Alsace-Lorraine, and that Austrian dissatisfaction, is general. NEW AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR. Received Nov. 11, 5,5 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 10. Count von Arnowski, Austrian Minister at Sofia, has been appointed Am bassador to Washington.