AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

FAMiNE ki'OTS. MILITARY CALLED OUT. Received Jan. 2(i, 0.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 2il. German deserters states that theie .no famine riots at Dusseldori'. Last "kI; the crowds stoned the biirgoniri.t<r. The military killed twenty and «Minded many of the rioters. FIRE AT A FACTORY. STORES DESTROYED. London, January 24. A large quantity of supplies was destroyed by a lire in a factory near Essen. The damage is estimated at a million marks, I'HE LAST HOUND. Amsterdam, Jan. 25. The Berlin corespondent of the Tyd who is exceedingly well informed, asserts that the last round of the conflict is beginning A new submarine ciuiijiaisu. supported by the German fleer, wili be inaugurated to cut i-IF England's vital resomees. There will be only sufficient lighting on the Eastern front to preserve the status quo. Austria will settle with Ttaly after the fashion of Roumania. Germany will seek a decision in the West, where operations of x formidable character will commence in a month or six weeks. AUSTKO-HUNC!A111AX COMPROMISE Received January 2(1, 9.10 p.m. Geneva. Jan. 25. An official message from Vienna states that a ccmproniise between Austria and Hungary lias been concluded for a period of twenty years. A SUCCESS CLAIMED. A. & X.Z. Cable As-oriation and Renter. Adnvniln per Wireless Press. Received Jan. 2(1, 0.13 p.m. London, Jan. 2(1. German official: We attacked, over ten kilometres of the front on both sides of the Aa river, and took 171 ( prisoners. j PROGRESS ON THE AA Received Jan. 20, 11.10 p.m. (Admiralty, per Wireless Press). London, Jan. 20 German official: AYe progressed on .both banks of the Aa. I