AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN PEACE MOVE. INSPIRED FROM BERLIN. London, April 22. The Observer's corresppndent at Berne telegraphs that the Austrian peace move is inspired from Berlin with the object of driving a deep wedge between the patriots and the pacifists at Pstrograd. Austria is powerless to conclude a separate peace. Germans command the armies which include a considerable admixture of Germans, whilst the generalissimo is heart and soul Prussian. Financially, Austria is absolutely at Germany's mercy. PRECAUTIONARY METHODS. FORCED FINANCE. Berne, April 22. Manifold precautions are being taken in Germany against May Day demonstrations. The former staffs of the Socialist newspapers and leaders of the discontented munition workers have been sent to the trenches. , Compulsory subscriptions were inflicted for the German sixth war loan on insurance companies, who were compelled to hand over maturing endowment policies in -war loan stock. One company thus paid '£35,000,000 in March. Germans possessing money abroad were compelled to realise it and invest in the war loan. RIOT AND TUMULT. POLICE USE FIREARMS. Received April 22, 10.38 p.m. Amsterdam, April 22. Strikes -continue in the big German cities, and the police used firearms to restore' order in Berlin. Extensive strikes have occurred on the Rhino coalfields, including Hambmg, where 35,000 are striking. There hsvs been tumultuous demonstrations in Essen aiid Madgeburg. . ' DISGRACE TO GERMANY. Received April 23. 2.40 p.m. I London, April 22. • Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg received a deputation of Spandau munition strikers, headed by the Socialist Haase. In reply to their representations he said the Strikers were a disgrace to themselves and! to Gernymy, adding that he had sacrificed his dignity in receiving them. A subsequent meeting of the strikers unanimously resolved to continue the strike. GERMAN CANNIBALS. DELIBERATELY LYING. Received April 23, 6.30 p.m. London, April 22. The Times of the 22nd instant characterises the German quibble negarding the word "cadaver" as definitely and deliberately untrue, and repeats the charge that the Germans are using soldiers' corpses, pointing out that the Government lists fixing the prices of fjdder differentiate between "tierkooraperimehl" or carcases' meal, and "kadaveraehl" or corpses' meal. Mr. W. F. Massey, speaking at Manchester, said the German madness had culminated in boiling down slain soldiers for commercial requirements. He cxbis horror, and trusted that ihe ! ' evil power would be broken for j .'una. ... Curzon, speaking at Derby, conI ;.. .:hnl the fact that corpse treatnunt factories existed, adding, "No horror is too great for the Germans." The Bishop of Carlisle described the business as cannibalism, recalling ihe Prussians' cannibalism during thirty years' war. BIX EXPLOSION. PROPERTY DAMAGED. Rotterdam, April 22. A big explosion is reported at Wilhelmshaven. Property was damaged over a wide area. | CESSATION OF THE WAR. TURKISH APPEAL. Received April 23, 2.40 p.m. Rome, April 22. A wireless message states that 7'alaat Bey will arrive in Vienna on Monday, bearing the equivalent of an appeal for the cessation of the war.