AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

NEWS FROM HUNLAND DECISIVE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN ATTEMPTED HUNGER fHOUBLES. i deceived March 13, 1025 p.m. ! London, March 13. The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent reports that latest telegrams from Germany state that two 'argq submarines of the Deutschet v ■ are now acting as supply ? for the smaller craft r tS Atlantic. Four other large sttiitn: hi ■ been commissioned for siyii- 1 : «/ Special efforts are being in:-../? • fchipping between America an? England. Germany is attempting to perfect a decisive shumarine campaign,.in case of war with America. 1 A serious situation has arisen in Al-sace-Lorraine, wherp there has been an cr.ormous number of arrests ot residents suspected of disloyalty po Germany. The fuspccts have been sent to tlio interior and imprisoned. There is much trouble in the munition factories owing to the constant hunger strikes of workers of bot'.i sexes, particularly in Wurtemburg and Baden. Many men have been called from the armies to replace the strikers, and the hunger invalids. A PLEA FOR THE TRUTH. Amsterdam, March 12. Dr. Heims, the Bavarian, peasants' leader, writing to the newspapers, says it would be better for G'ermany frankly to tell the trutli about the food situation than to continue to work on the wrecked system. There are still 120 days before the new harvest, and even if hunger brought peace to-morrow, it would be many' months before they would get corn, owing to the bad crop ZEPPELIN'S PATENTS BECOME NATIONAL. Geneva, March 12. Count Zeppelin bequeathed to the nation all 'rights in his scientific discoveries and patents. —! ' UNITED STATES. j NO, END TO GERMAN PLOTS. ANOTHER BATCH REVEALED. ,1 New York, March 12. Guanta, a Hindoo student, admits that) Captain von Papon, the German military attache, financed a trip in 1915 when Guanta endeavored unsuccessfully to purchase arms for shipment to India. The New York World publishes documents showing that Germany 2'/ s years ago' supplied fluerta with guns and munitions for use' against Americans and the Carranzistas. Five arrests of pro-German? disclose a far-reaching plot in which the crewsof the Ivronprinz Wilhclm and Prinz Eitel are- implicated. Evidence showed that articles were smuggled from the ships on which were messages in invisible writing. It is believed there related to military secret; sent to New York, thence to Mexico, whence they were sent by wireless to Berlin. SHIPS TO BE ARMED. Washington, March 12. The State Department has notified foreign diplomats that armed guards will henceforth be l placed on all American ships sailing through the danger zone and American navy gunners provided on both passenger and munition ships. The State Department has made a complete change of front regarding the status of merchantmen, now holding that they do not become warships in any sense though armed.