AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

BEATEN BY STARVATION. GERMAXY WILL COXCEDE EVERYTHING. BUT WILL PREPARE FOR WAR WITH BRITAIX. ' Received Dee. 2(1, 0.40 p.m. London, Dec. 20. The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent recounts a remarkable conversation between a German of high official status and a Dutch visitor. The German admits that Germany is beaten by starvation, not by arms. This is England's doing alone" He admits that the only mistake was that the German fleet was not large enough. In the next triumph she will create a fleet that will annihilate England. It was for this that she lias carefully preserved her fleet iii the p:esent war. Germany now, after some show of hypocritical diplomatic resistance, will concede every British demand, even abandoning her allies and .'jiving up the Kaiser, but on the day ueaee is signed she will prepare for England.

He added that great masses of workers in Germany regard the new compulsory civilian work with the deepest suspicion and distrust. Frequent huge demonstrations of workers at Essen, Cologne and other centres domande'd an immediate increase in wages to meet the high prices.

Sudden strikes in various directions indicate that, despite all repression, workmen are. beginning to secretly reorganise against the general severity of the. conditions. It, is understood that the Government's projected wholesale compulsory municipal feeding is intended not only to control stocks of food to the best advantage, but to liberate aji immense number of women from domestic work for labor of a lirect national or military character. This combing out is expected to provide another million soldiers of one sort or another.

RAPID DECAY OF GERMANY. TEOPLE DYING OF HUNGER, REVOLUTION IMMINENT. END OF WAR DEMANDED. Received Dec. 2(1, 0.10 p.m. London, Dec. 25.. Some neutral traveller-i from Hamburg Ray that Germany is undergoing a pre cess of rapid decay. Every morning tliHamburg authorities destroy thousands of 'placards inscribed: "The people care dying of hunger. We want peace! Down with the war!" At Berlin a revolution is knocking at the door, and it is difficult for the police to maintain order. The streets are daily filled with women protesting, threatening, and demanding the end of the war.

FOOD RIOTS AT DRESDEN. SHARP CONFLICT WITH POLICE. Received Dec. 26, 9.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Dec. 25. There were food riots in Dresden on the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth. Women processioned the streets and stoned the food shops, which were closed owing to the lack of supplies. They passed tho King's palace shouting: "We want food!" Several women were arrested for using insulting language about the King. The trouble culminated on the nineteenth, when the agitators had a sharp conflict with the police. A hundred women were wounded in the charge.

AUSTRIA'S ECONOMIC STRESS. MAY SECEDE FROM GERMANY. New York, Dec. 25. The Tribune says it has the highest authority for the. statement that Austria is near secession owing to acute economic stress. Britain proves that before peace was offered President Wilson was told that the Kaiser still had a big card to play. Britain knows what that card is. LUXEMBURG CABINET RESIGNS. Amsterdam, Dec. 25. The Luxemburg Cabinet has resigned owing to the passing of a no-confidence vote arising from the shortage of food supplies. BRITISH ATTACKS REPULSED. London, Dec. 25. A Germar official message claims the repulse of British attacks on the Ypres sector and in Macedonia. . TREATY WITH HOLLAND. Amsterdam, Dec. 25. Holland has signed a treaty undertaking to supply Germany with milk, nuts, eggs and fruit.

KAISER'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. Renter Message. The Kaiser's Christmas message to the troops stated: "Honor G-od above and peace on earth."