AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

m CANNOT BE CONQUERED!

I'&AISER'S VAIN BOAST, . > Received Dec. 4, 525 p.m. 'Amsterdam, Dec. 3. ' iTiS Kaiser telegraphed to Herr Bettunann-flollweg his great delight at ihe adoption of civilian service, showing that the. people were. filled w'th suet a Uniform determination to make every Sacrifice in blood, treasure, and labor for tofe victorious defence of the Fatherland. /'We. must .. maintain against everyone our place in the civilised nations, which was gained by intelligence, ijidustry, andmpraj 4rength, and we .<fHBOt be conquered." ..TURKS IN ARABIA. T PKOTAL BEHAVIOUR. Received Dec. 4, 5.30 p.m. ; - . Washington, Dec. 3. ;* "Tlve .new Kingdom of Arabia has Jrigoronsly" protested to ttie civilised . world against the cruelties of the Turks, who are treating their prisoners jbrutally. •

- Mr. loosing is at a loss bow to respond, because the Arabian sovereignty fcas not yet been recognised.

jKAISER RECEIVES A REBUFF.

London, Dec. ; 3. : Tho Dftily Chronicle says that a Paris r.evrspaper learns that the reason for the Kaiser's absence from the funeral- of the late Emperor Francis Joseph was that he wished, as supreme chief of the Ger-man-Austrian coalition, to lead the profession, ahead of the Emperor Charles. Jfcis was refused by the Austrian court protocol. Hence his immediate return to g«siany. the Polish regent. •' Paris, Dee. 3. The Matin's Vienna advices state that fiegotiationa between tbe German and '•Anstjro-Himgarian Governments for the choujp.pf a Polish regent have concluded. He will be chosen from a Catholic 4jfnasty.-" -

PRISONERS IN GERMANY. / • Amsterdam, Dec. 3. - An official Berlin statement says that tnere w£re" 1,683,794" war 'prisoners: in Germany on August Mast. The deaths of prisoners during the war have been 20,297, including 6032 of tuberculosis, '42 OK of Spotted fever, and 6270 of wouadsi The cases of tuberculosis are ' decreasing.

CIVILIAN SERVICE.

Amsterdam, Dec. 3. The. Reichstag by 253 votea to 19, read a third time' the 'Compulsory Civilian Service Bill. The, discussipn on the Bill was heated, the Sojklists 'denouncing the enslavement of women and the deportation of Uelgiaifa ■ ~ Herreif Haase and Ditmann summoned the Government to restore the freedom jof workmen, especially of Belgians, whose (fepbrtatioti was contrary to the Hague Convention. Herr Helferic-h deplored the discussion, jwhich would'have a bad effect on the Xroops at the front. He asserted that forcing the Belgians to work was in ac•cordanwwith international law. It was intolerable to let an idle and turbulent population remain in the war zone. OBEEK SUBSERVIENCE. ** ' ■ ; Copenhagen, Dec. 3. '' Herr Zimmerman, in the Reichstag, announced., that the Greek Minister had jerpressed - the regret of the Hellenic jGovernm;nt at its inability to prevent the departure of the Ministers of friend|jr States.

• ANOTHER CANARD EXPOSED. Copenhagen, Dec. 3. . 3rftaih'*emphatically denies tbe inan allegation- that she is seeking to ieeure the transit of war material tr via. Sweden.