AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

KAISER FATALLY ILL END OF HOHENZOLLERN RULE. ■Received April 5, 11 p.m. London, April 6. The Morning Post's Washington correspondent has received information from American financial circles closely connected with German-American bankers who are on intimate terms with the German Government, to the effect that the Kaiser is fatally ill with Bright's disease. The illness is ascribed to continued worry and mental depression. The physicians and entourage have failed to rally hiin. The disease has now got such a hold upon him that his recovery iB impossible, and his death 19 expected during the next few months. The same German bankers say that unless a sudden republican uprising takes place after the Kaiser.ft death a constitutional monarchy is likely to lie the outcome,, and the Hohenzollern house will probably loße the Imperial crown, as the Germans will not accept the Crown Prince, owing to his moral character. POSSIBILITY OF EARLY PEACE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR TO SPEAK TO THE WORLD. Received April s|, 5.5 p.m. . London, April 4. • At the conference it is understood that M. Czernin made an important declaration of the possibility of an early peace, adding that the Emperor of Austria would shortly be making a statement to the civilised world to that effect. AMERICAN SITUATION. AUSTRIA TO SEVER RELATIONS. THE ABYSS THAT ENGLAND SEES. Washington, April «. Telegrams from Berlin state that Herr von Zimmerman (Foreign Secretary) summoned American newspaper correspondents and announced that the Government has received with the deepest chagrin the news of President Wilson's address. He added that Americans could remain unmolested in Germany while Germans were unmolested in America. The Kolnische Volks Zeitung states that the fact that President Wilson has been obliged to take the latest step is proof that the English situation is very bad. She sees the abyss opening before her, unless America saves her from the submarines. The conference of German and Austrian Emperors, Ministers and Generals was practically devoted to the American situation. It was decided that Austria should break off relations, the German delegates strongly urging this as neceswry.'' HOSTILITY TO THE KAISER. The Hague, April 4. Hostility to tie Raiser was marked during the Bismarck birthday celebrations in Germany. Dr. Baumer, a, member of the Prussian Diet, in a speech at Cologne, attacked Germany's diplomacy. It i 9 understood that Austria has decided to break relations with the United States. ( HUN DEVILRY. i Copenhagen, April 4. Germans have been discovered endeavoring to smuggle sugar containing anthrax bacilli and explosive pencils into Russia. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. Wireless, -per Admiralty Press. Received April 6, 11.5 p.m. London, April 5. German Official:—The English strongly attacked northward of the PeronneCambrai road. We inflicted heavy losses before retiring. They occupied our evacuated positions south-west of St. Quentin. Our batteries exploded a munitions depot, near Yendresse. We inflicted a defeat northward of Rheims and captured trenches, west of Monastir.