AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMANY'S CONDITION DESPERATE. PAROXYSM OF MISERY APPROACHING. | INTERNAL COLLAPSE FEARED. INTENSE FRIGHTFULNESS PROB-' ABLE. Received March 12, S.liO p.m. London, March 12. The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent says there is no doubt that | Germany fears the worst, internally and | externally. The speeches in the Prussian Diet indicate that the people's condition is desperate, and prepare the world for the most terrible events. The llandelhlail's Herlin correspondent slates that when the products -of tho. ! jpst harvest afc exhausted in spring, .the j Rome workers will have, to struggle against u laek of food, and the situation will become a paroxysm of misery wherewith all former aspects of tie war cannot compare. The, Daiiy Chronicle adds that the GcrTOf.n leaders fear a collapse of tho internal organisation, forcing the army ;'.!)d navy to most desperate actions. THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. (PROJECTED GERMAN IMPROVEPROVEMENTS. TUNNELLING UNDER THE POSPHORUS. i'.u-uved March 12, 8.18 p.m. Amsterdam., March 12. The German engineers are busy upon projects for improvements of the Bag- , dad railway, with a view to obviating the ferry across the Bosphorus. They are preparing plans for tunnelling under the Bosphorus, an alternative being the construction of a bridge of six hundred metres froui RummelMlissar to Anatolissa. AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CHANGES. COUNT TISZA'S RESIGNATION , EXPECTED. 1 1 Received March 12, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 12. The Frankfurtur Zeitung's Vienna correspondent /states that the Emperor suddenly broke oil his stay at Budapest to visit the south of Hungary. He has now returned to Vienna. The resignation of Count Tisza and the formaticyi of a coalition Cabinet is expected. COUNT BERNSTORFF'S RETURN. London, March 11. Count Bernstorff has arrived at Christiania. Christiania, March 1L Count Bernstorff was accompanied by 200 Germans. There were some Russians among the passengers, but there was no discord. Some American journalists accompanied Count Bernstorff, who refused to be interviewed. British warships overhauled and thoroughly examined the ship, but treated the Germans considerately. A BARE-FACED FICTION. v Copenhagen, March 11. Count Bernstorff, interviewed by the National Tidende, said that news of tho plot to invite Mexico to join the war was absolutely new to him. Thp first- he i heard of it was on his arrival. 1 ,