AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

VAfHOTJS MATTERS. Amsterdam, June 5. . The Cologne Gazette, in a semi-offi--o*l statement, says: Those who jjjigugnt peace zephyrß were blowing jfcnst change their minds after France's flselaiation that her territories must be evacuated. The call' from Paris again summons the belligerents to arms and ony peace discussion must be only acajJanic ~ sh«> Czech Socialists received passpbrts |o attend the Stockholm conference. Copenhagen, June 4. Negotiations have been begun between the German Majority Socialists, and ©Utah Scandinavian delegates at StockGermans submarines are actively destroying Swedish fishing boats near Roster. i" ' ' Rome, June 5. The food question in Austria is Increaaingly critical. All food parcels for Italian prisoners are systematically used for the starving population. i London, June 5. The Times Tevives a notorious horror |by photographically reproducing the Q«nnan Army Order of December 21 <ioniatting instructions for-: forwarding' corpses to corpse factories that '■ eorbses must be accompanied by; particulars of death and illness and notificationif the disease is contagibu?. ."■ The Times says the order finally, disposes of the German press assertions that the German word "kadaver" applied to-animals-only, j '■ '.-. i > - ' Berne. June.s. ,; The Osech Socialist z"arty denounce the Czech Socialist delegates at Stockholm. Thoy declare that they are imv potters. Tie Government refused-.pass-ports to -the party's delegates. ■> '-'," Amsterdam, June 8. ■ Wolf , a member of the German:> Party to the Austrian Reichstag; states that ▼hfle the Government has officially, disavowed the statement of the Austrian Socialists' at Stockholm regarding-re-paration "to Serbia, Count Czermnpri< £telv informed the Socialists that he agreed with their policy, fearing the Kufcaan revolutionary ideas might extend to the Dual Monarchy. REPORT MADE IN GERMANY. O. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Heeeiyed June 6, 5.45 p.m. ~) London, June a. 'A -wireless German official report (states: An artillery battle at WytBehaete salient and the neighboring Salient was of extreme violence. There tM-Aeen lively fighting at several points fa the vicinity of the coast, and between the La Bassee Canal and the BaSumeiCambrai road the English advances were without result. We heavily wmribea two French night attacks near fcave We brought down twelve enemy aeroplanes. There is nothing of important on the East front, although fighting activity has been revived at manypmnts^^^