AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

PUNISHING ENGLAND, WHAT THE GERMANS WOULD LIKE TO DO. Received Jan. 5, 10 p.m Amsterdam, .Tan. 5. Newspaper, are the matter of punishing England. The notorious Karl Petes suggests a great expedition against E«;pt, and fleets of Zeppelins to bonit tlie Admiralty and House of Commons, where poisonous speeches and libels abound. Herr Zimmerman, the .-olonr.il enthusiast, suggests seizing tlie fiold Coast, 3oudan, and Nigeria, uil admits that Australasia could not bo neid. TUB 3ERLIN CONFERENCES. London, Jan. 4. The newspapers attach importance to the practically simultaneous conference •f the enemy Sovereigns at Vienna and theii Foreign Ministers ai Berlin. In addition to a conference of Parliamentary presidents, there wit. also be % special session of the Reiehsta,, .inout the middle of January to discus the Allies' refusal of the peace jffer The Evening Standard -,tatcs thai iiie Allies anticipate a further (.erman Note, couched in more conciliatory terms.

AUSTRIA'S APPEAL TO THE POrE. Rome, Jan. 4 The Austrian Emperor's' r.pecial courier ha? arrived, bearin c a message appealing for the Pope's intervention >n behalf of peace. The Emperor and Empress o. Austria lave requested the Pope to intervene ■0 iecurs peace. GREAT FOOD SCARCITY, New York, Jan. 4. Mr. Keely, editor of the Chicago Herald, who recently visited Europe, publishes extracts from the Berliner Tageblatt, proving that there is a great food scarcity in Austro-Germany. The Tageblatt states that from January 1 rations were reduced, potatoes from a pound and a half to three-quarter; of a pound daily, meat to less than half a pound on meat days, and butter to two ounces weekly. The meat supply Is wholly inadequate, and many foodstuffs unobtainable, others only at impossible prices. Despite attempts to reassure the people, milk and othei commodities are extremely scarce, and the situation is daily becoming worse. The Government is forced to make war allowances to people with incomes of £240.