AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

HUN BARBARITY. Copenhagen, March 4. Two American doctors were released with the Yarrowdale prisoners. They state that 4SO of the captured crewß were imprisoned at Neu Strelitz and subsequently transferred to Karlsruhe, where the camp is situated in the centre of the town, between two railway stations, which the French and British airmen constantly bombard. The camp was established for reprisal purposes. The prisoners include highly placed British and French officers. DEPRESSION IN AUSTRIA. Berne, March 4. | Private Vienna advices state that the retreat on the Ancre has created de- , plorabla depression throughout Austria. ' Austrian correspondents at German headquarters, with a view of reassuring the public, talk vaguely of the imminence of a German surprise coup. FOREIGN OFFICE CONFERENCE. Amsterdam, Mivrch 4. The Kaiser gave a lengthy audience to Herr von Zimmerman, who later attended Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg's conference with Foreign Office officials. | GERMANS REFUSE AMERICAN GIFTS. Rome, March 4. The German committee for the assistance of war widows and orphans refused the Americans' gift, handed over by Mr. Gerard, amounting to half a million marks ( £25,000), and the money has been deposited in a German bank for the duration of the war. CONFERENCE OF GENERAL STAFF. Received March 5, 5.5 p.m. Berne, March 4. Newspapers state that the German General Staff, consisting of the Kaiser, Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, Generals Ludendorff and Falkenhayn, has assembled. J j AN OFFICIAL REPORT. London, March 3. German official. —We repulsed attacks by strong English detachments eastward and south-eastward of Souchez. Inhere were tyany encounters in the Ancre region and lively fighting westward and southwards of Riga, between the Upper Sereth and the Dneister. Five Russian attacks failed to recapture the heights northward of Vareputna. A German communique states that British reconnoitring detachments which attempted to penetrate the trenches at Hulluch and Lewin were repulsed. There have been renewed violent infantry encounters on both banks of the Ancre, the British suffering sanguinary losses. The Germans broke in on the Russian position west of Luck to a depth of 1500 metres and a width of 2% kilometres.