AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

STRIKE AND RIOTS. , W BERLIN. Amsterdam, April 10. Travellers report that a general strike Commenced in Berlin to-day. The strikers are already rioting DESIRE FOR PEACE. ALL RACES ANXIOUS, ; Zurich, April Ig. Eighty Americans from Vienna arrive! iiere. They inchide several Embassy officials, who believe that all races in . Austria and Hungary desire peace. , . ' PEACE PLOT. ', iREVTVED BY GERMAN'S. Copenhagen, April 16. A correspondent states that Germany Is reviving the peace plot on a worldwide scale, utilising German Socialists to approach Russian 'Socialists. Reports from Vienna indicate that Count Czernin has openly invited Russia Jo aegotiate. , A HORRIBLE BUSINESS. 'EXPLOITATION OF THE DEAD. , ■ iteceiTed April 17, 11.2 p.m. London, April <• The Independence Beige states that a German Offal Recovery Company, with a dividend-earning capital of a-quarter of a million sterling, has been established iat St. Vith, neap tie Belgian frontier, in a thick*forest.,' Train loads of naked corpses from the We3t front arrive daily. Factory hands, wearing oilskins and masks, and armed with long hooked poles push the corpses on to an endless chain, which picks them up with big hooks. The chain carries the bodies to a compartment, .wihere' they are disinfected, steamed, dried, and finally automatically detached from the chain and ! dropped into a great cauldron, where they are steam treated while being slow- ! '. ly stirred by machinery for eight hours. The process results in stearine tallow > end oil. The latter is redistilled at a separate oil refinery. The refined oil is (A a. yellow-brown color, is packed in email casks, like petrol, and a portion of the by-products is sent to soap makers. The factory is thoroughly scientific and fitted with the latest appliances and electrlo machinery. It employs two chemists and 80 men, who are closely guarded and not allowed to leave the ,jrork«; i A NEW PARTY. | FORMED IN GERMANY. (Received April 17,11.20 p~.nl. ; Amsterdam, April 16. |_ 'A new party, jcalled the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, has been founded under the joint presidency of Herr Haase and Herr Ledebour, to oppose- Herr Scheidemann's Socialist Party and the Government.