AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

HUNGARIAN CRISIS CONTINUES. A POSSIBLE PREMIER. Received May -20, 8.30 p.m. Home, May 28. Negotiations ;for a Hungarian settlement have boon resultless. Archduke Josef, after consultation-; with !Count Tisza, left Budapest. It is expected Professor Wekerlt* will be appointed Premier. COUNT ANDRASSY TO FORM A CABINET. Received' May 21), 8.30 p.m. 11 Amsterdam, May 29. | Count Andrassy* liur been eominis- j sioned to form a Hungarian Cabinet. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE EXPECTED. WITHDRAWAL OP TROOPS STOPPED. Received May 20, 5.30 p.m. London, May 28. Swiss telegrams confirm tho stoppage of tho movements of Anstro-Gcrmans from the East fronts as the high command has noted numerous symptoms suggesting 1 a Russian offensive in the near future, extending from the Carpathians to Galicia. A SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. GERMANY PULLING THE STRINGS. Amsterdam, May 28. The International Federation of Trades Unions lias summoned a so-called peace conference to be hold at Stockholm on June S to discuss 'trade union demands and a peace treaty. The Federation's chairman is a German Socialist, P.eichstager Legion, who prepared the scheme, the first point whereof demands that trade unionists of all countries should have freedom of movement for ■settlement in all other countries. The conference is obviously Germany's attempt to exploit trade unionism and Germimy's interests. EXPLOSION AT MUNITION FACTORY. NUMEROUS CASUALTIES. Received May 30, 1.30 a.m. Amsterdam, May 29. A' fire and explosion at a munitions factory at.Bolovcc, Bohemia, caused numerous casualties. Sixteen dead bodies were recovered. There are fifty still entombed in the wreckage. SEIZURE OF METAL FITTINGS. Amsterdam, May 28. It is officially announced that Germany will shortly seize bronze and brass house fittings. The seizure is unavoidable.