AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

flßl AT WILHELMSHAVEN. WBUASm& DEPARTMENT DAMAGED, (Received May W, 6.30 p.m. Amsterdam, May 13. &■ great ifire which occurred at the Imperial wharves at Willhelmshaven raged for eeven hours, the submarine department of the building being damaged. . GSMfCMJWR GOES TO VIENNA. Received May 14, 10 p.m. Amsterdam, May 14. .. A Uelegram from Berlin states that the Chancellor jb.aa gone to Vienna to confer -with Count Czernin. The German Government refused perjnite 's? Herr Baase and other independent Socialists to proceed to the Stockholm conference. NEWSPAPERS CRIPPLED. '..;.: Amsterdam, May 13. The German Government admits that It is- impossible to supply coal to the paper factories. Many newspapers are seating .publication, while others are further reducing their sizes. JMffiRNAL MACHINE AT KAISER'S " iHOUSE. Paris. May 13. The Humanite's correspondent at Zurich, says that a powerful infernal * machine was discovered in the Kaiser's prif ate residence in the Tiergarten. The military guard is suspected. BELGIANS IN GERMAN ARMY. t Amsterdajn, May 13. In reply to questions by the Socialist Kuhnea in the Reichstag, it. was stated that Ifte War Office had instructed comminders to dismiss any Belgians illegally incorporated in the German army. JROK CROSSES PLENTIFUL. Amsterdam, May 13. Several hundreds of thousands of Iron Crosses have been distributed, owing to the Kaiser empowering all army commanders to bestow them. The 'Berliner Tageblatt protests that the Iron Crosses won .behind the inkstand are greater in number than those ■Won at the front. Many have been bestowed on officials, orderlies, and even on army cooks and chauffeurs at the fear of the trenches.

THE CHANCELLOR TO SPEAK. London, May 13. A Berlin semi-official message announces that the Chancellor will speak OH war aims on Tuesday. ' THE NEST CHANCELLOR. New York, May 13. The Tiiaeß Hague correspondent quotes Cotaiti Reventlow, in the Tages Zeitung, as saying that he learns Herr von Beth-mann-Hollweg has stated that if he resigns Count Bernstorff will succeed h'mu Count Bernstorff recently had a lengthyconference with the Kaiser. , It is Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg's intention to< threaten the junkers and reactionaries' with the possibility of getting a,more' democratic Chancellor. ~.