AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

REMARKABLE CORRESPONDENCE. PAN-GERMAN league and HOLI/WEG. i ! OIIANCKttOR RESENTS DICTATION. ' Times Service. •' ■Received May 2G, C.20 p.m. London, Hay 27. Tile Vorwaerts Ims published a remarkable correspondence, dated in May, 1915, between General Gebsattel, on behalf of the Pan-German League, and Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg. *' GebsSttel wrote; "Amongst the broadest circles of the people feeling is embittered nearly to desperation because the Imperial Government has made its war aim too narrow. The people seo herein a renunciation whicji will bo moat disastrous, a political mistake the immediate consequence of which will be a revolution and the monarchy imperilled with overthrow.". He advocated a peace satisfying the necessities of the people and giving them what they deserved and claimed. , / Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg replied promising consideration of the demands after a complete overthrow of Germany's enemies, adding that momentarily the interests of foreign policy and natiopaf defence took precedence. Loyal 'monaichial circles would most grossly violate blieir duty to the Crown if they attempted to stir up uneasiness in the people about a limp, timid poljcy, of which there was no evidence, aollweg also pointed out what he termed the wickedness of any attempt to dictate to those appointed by the Crown to conduct the business of the Empire. A FURIOUS MANIFESTO. \ . COUNT TISZA 'HOOTED. POLITICAL SITUATION CHAOTIC. DISORDERS AND INCENDIARISM, j . Received May 28, 7.46 p.m. London, May 28. The Daily Telegraph's Milan' correspondent reports that Count Tisza, has issued a - furious manifesto assuring his resolute opposition to any Government that will not prosecute the war to the hitter end. A crowd at Budapest hooted Count Tisza and assembled before his palace shouting: "Down with Tisza 1 We want peacel" 'Despite- the Emperor's efforts, the; party leaders refuse to co-operate, and the political situation is simply in a chaos. Disorders are reported at Budapest and cisewhero in Hungary. In addition to the conflagration at Gyengyes, fires have occurred in other towns. ARCHDUKE JOSEF REFUSES PREMIERSHIP. 600 NEWSPAPERS STOP PUBLICA. TION. fieuter Service. Received May 28, 0.15 p.m. Amsterdam, May 27. A telegram from Budapest states tha!l the Archduke Jopef has declined the Premiership. The Cologne Gazette states that 000 German daily newspapers have stopped publication during lie war. HUNGARY AT RUSSIA'S MERCY AUSTRIA IN EXTREMIS, ; Rome, May 27. Austrian prisoners, who are mostly from the%lussian and Roumanian fronts, assert that if the Russians attacked near the Carpathians they would speedily have Hungary at their mercy. The general conditions in Austria are terrible, and they cannot possibly resist much longer. The food of the troops is incredibly bad, and they tiTe practically without meat. There are no Germans on the Italian front-, they have gone to Prance. There, are still a number of Bulgarians and Turks, and a few German detachments heliind the Austrian lines. GREAT MRES jIN GERMANY. Amsterdam, May 27. Sreat) fires continue in Germany, the latest include the gutting of Moabit goods station, Berlin, in which tanks of petrol and hydrogen exploded; also the destruction of Vilna and the township of Osjury, near Grodno, and a conflagration at a station and basket factory. Incendiarism is suspected. ' HUNGARIAN: CABINET CRISIS. $ *" May 27. The Tisza crisis has undergone a significant change. Most of the majority parties have joined Count Tisza, preventing the new Prime Minister getting the support of the whole Ministry. He will, therefore, he compelled to dissolve Parliament. The workers are demonstrating in Budapest in favor of the general suffrage. AUSTRIA'S PEACE OVERTURES. Zurich, May 27. The Augsburg Post Zeitung has been authorised to announce that Austria's peo.ee offer without annexation applies only to Russia. Austria is resolved to exact compensation from Serbia, Ronmania, Albania, and Montenegro. POOD RIOTS AROUND BRUSSELS. Amsterdam, May 27. There are repouts of serious food riots in the outskirts of Brussels on Standay. The crowds fought the police, but finally the. mounted police dispersed Jha%