AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN LLOYDS' LOSSES.

SHIPS INTERNED IN AMERICA ' EBGAKDED AS LOST. .Received May 81, 8.30 p.m. 1 Amsterdam, May 30. At 4ihe annual meeting of the Austrian Lloyds'' Shipping Company at Vienna, it wag Stilted that the company's losses in 1916 iamounted to over fhree million and that amount) had already tieeri exceeded in the present year. The lirectora considered that the ships interned in America were lost. OF REICHSTAG. 1 - ' SINCE THE WAR. 39. MEMBERS OT PRISON.' j Admiralty, per Wireless Press. Received May 31, 8.30 p.m. ! , ' Zurich, May 30. The Hungarian Reichstag met for the j fitst time since the war. The oldest Keputy! presided, pending the election of a president. Many members were absent, thirty-five undergoing imprisonment for political offences. Tributes Vera paid to the memory of the late Emperor Franz Josef, followed by a formal demonstration of loyalty to Eropefor Karl. Prince Windischgraetz prefidMl in the House of Peers." . SOCIALIST DELEGATES. Copenhagen, May SO. The German Socialist Majority deleincluding Herr Schneidemann, have, i arrived, en route for Stockholm. The ' Minority delegates have not arrived. Asked when :peace would come; tiic delegates replied, "When the belligerents follow Russia's example." Germany wris ready for peace without annexations. One .delegate added that the separate of Attach and 'Lorraine wag impossible, ewing to the intimate industrial connections with Germany. Though Germany fea hard up for food the prospects of the harvest were splendid. PEACE CONDITIONS. i Zurich, May 30. • A wireless message states that the branch of the Pan-German liMgue passed a resolution that peace jmist not he concluded till Britain is conquered and the Kaiser has annexed tltt Thole of the British Empire. &AISER HEAVY-HEARTED. Amsterdam, May 30. i The Kaiser, addressing the western ; Mops, said: "T speak with a . heavy • leart, but we shall continue to fight, rfitil complete victory against those at-, tcking us is secured|" ... ( OUTSPOKEN ATTACK. Berne, May 30. The Munich Post makes an outspoken Ittack on Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg's (ottble dealing, which the paper declares 8 responsible for the growing distrust ind uneasiness in Germany. Not even )hft youngest lieutenant believes Jn tne mtimistic idea that our enemies will be. forced to beg for peace in three or four Months. "Be German people desire a that will leave the nation's honor iltftct, exetdde the possibility of a •dture war of revenge, and enable the *«ld to resume its productive work. At ife same time a purer air must blow in Jennany, particularly in North Germany, ®<ufi?g democracy in political life.