AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

REJECTS ENROLLED. A NEW WAR. Received Nov. 22, 11.25 p.m. London, Nov. 22. Eight hundred German doctors are re-examining Austrians previously rejected for military service, in many cases over-ruling the decisions of their Austrian colleagues, and enrolling unfits. The enrolment of a sufferer from heart weakness was secured for active service, the German doctor remarking that lie. was able to hold a rifle. If he killed one of the enemy and died of hcai't disease he would be useful to the Central Powers.

ALSTmAX EMPEROR'S DEATH. Received Nov. 23, 1.30 a.m. London, Nov. 22. News of the death of the Emperor Franz Josef was only received in London after the. papers had gone to press, though rumors as to his serious condition were in circulation in Amsterdam, Paris, and London after midnight. Inflammation of the right lung was detected on Monday night, his temperature being above normal, but his heart was strong. Die Emperor had continued to work thorughout the day, sc that no particular anxiety was felt until Tuesday morning. The announcement of his deatli in Vienna made an intense impression on the population, the newspapers publishing special editions. A . Cabinet Council was immediately convened. Count Tisza (Hungarian Premier) left Budapest for Vienna. The successor to the throne has been in Vienna for some Ijime. ' VON JAGOW RESIGNS. Received Nov. 22, 10 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 22. Official, Berlin.—flerr von .Tagow, Foreign 'Minister, has resigned for health reasons. He will probably be succeeded by Hen- Zimmerman, UnderSecretary.

RUMORED, RECALL OF FALKENHAYX, Bncahrest, Nov. 21. A wireless message states that it is rumored General von Fallccnhayn has been -ailed, and that General von Mack»,. so is replacing him, and General von Ludendorfi' taking over the Southern front. THE FOOD PROBLEM. Amsterdam. Nov. 21. Field-Marshal von Ilindenburg, writing to Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, states that compulsion is necessary in order to =olve tbe food problem to supply war material, and fully to utilise labor. Everyone should spare what they could to feed the troops oi munition workers. SOOTHING THE GERMAN PEOPLE. Amsterdam, Nov. 21. A German semi-official review of the fighting at various points declares that it is improbable the British will much longer persist in the methods of attack employed at the Ancre, because they demand over-great efforts. Their success at Beaumont Hamel puts the British in a difficult position, because the German artillery is enabled tc use the Serre heights The French have bad no better success, and the Anglo-French offensive has failed. The invasion of Roumania is of ' jreatci-* importance even than that of the liobrudja. General Sarrail's success at Monastir ia relatively unimportant.