AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

IMPORTANT WAR COUNCIL. OF AUSTRIAN BOW-WOWS. Received Jan. 12, S p.n. Vienna, Jan. 11. 'Count Czornin presided at a length* and important War Council meeting of the joint Austro-Hnngarian CaWets Afterwards Count Czernln went to'head quarters, where the Emperor conferred with numerous general, Ministers, Avchdukes, the German Military plenipotentiary, and the Austro■Hungarir.a Am bassador.' GERMAN CASUALTIES. t . FOR THE PAST MONTH.

Received Jan. 12, 8 p.m. " London, Jan. 12. German casualties are shown by official lists for December, but not necessarily incurred in December, r.re given at BS.-291, whereof 15,100 were killed. SUCCESSES CLAIMED. « Admiralty, per Wireless Press. London. Jan. 11. A German official r--\esape says: We repulsed .an attack with heavy losses north of Ypres and drove out the British, who had penetrated a narrow, front. Th( enemy occupied a salient trench near Beaumont. The Anstro-Germans won successss between the Uz and Sisita Valleys. -We stormed the heights north of the Ootuz road and captured SOO near Marasti and Racoasn. THE- FOOD PROBLEM f Renter Service. ■.., Ainsterd..t:i, Jan. 11. The Municipality of Berlin announces that-there is a possibility of one egg weekly fcr every Berliner till the 31st, but that ft is impossible to forecast the supply thereafter. , s, Herr liatocki, interviewed by a Swemish journalist, admitted that jjiere were local difficulties, but said that Austria's shaW of the Roumanian food supplies 'would enable her to dispense" with the contemplated -contribution of 100,000 tons of corn from Germany. s ' HINDENBURG'S TYRANNY. London, Jan. 11. r Renter's Hague correspondent says that Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, while visiting a hospital at Cambrai, was angefgd by a German nurse speaking English to the British wounded, and ordered her removal, declaring that no one speaking English should be employed in nursing the English.