AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

SERIOUS RIOTS. P GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. < '< London, April 11. .* Tktre Were serious riot? at Dusseldnrf bn Easter Sunday. Women munition workers marcked i» procession singing revolutionary songs and demanding Jiread. Many arrests were made. _ There were similar riots at Barmen, El&erfleld, Crofeld, Duisburg, Hole feld, Aix-la-Chapelle and Essen. The commanders at Elberfeld and Barmen instructed the soldiers to use firearms Without waning in future. Amsterdam, April 11. Reports from the frontier state that there were over 200 casualties as the result of the Aix-la-Chapelle riots. The Jown halt is in flames. Germany within. GENERAL DISORDERS FEAKED. EXTRAORDINARY fKECAUTIONS. Received, April 12,, 9.15 p.m. London, April 11. The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent says the authorities in Germany fear that the disorders hitherto Isolated, will become general, an outfriealc in Hamburg being specially likely. Extraordinary measures are being Iftken to cope with the situation. Police Md Boldiers have taken possession of the Corner honses commanding the important streets, and machine guns 1-ave Jjeen installed. FOOD PROBLEM. I I r~ <^. . SERIOUS IN SCANDINAVIA. m.~ t ■ . Co P enh . a g en > April 11. a* l © too<l situation ia growing worse throughout Scandinavia. The Swedish Government las seized oils, maize and rice, and further cut d»wn the rations jrf bread and flour.

GERMAN REFORM. PROGRAMME WATERED DOWN. _ . Berne, April IJ. Official interpreters are watering down Ulie Kaisers reform programme. They Insist that there is no intention to introduce manhood suffrage. Conservative correspondents state that Herr von Bethmann Hollweg's Bill will not go fat to satisfy the Radicals. It contains many safeguards against the ■udden demonetisation of the franchise. It will he the duty of the Conservatives to defend these. CROWN PRINCE DISRATED. REG AT .LED TO BERLIN. Received April 12, 9.5 p.m. Amsterdam, April 11. German deserters report that the Crown Prince has been deprived of his tommand and recalledjto Berlin, General being appointed chief commander li Flanders. DEPRECIATION OF THE ItARK. Renter Service. Received April 13, 12 SO a.m. London, April V2. Ike Times' Amsterdam correspondent Sdy# the Gerr.aJi mark and the Austrian crown have reached the record lowest points, namely, 37.85 and 23.75 rnspec-