AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

THE KAISER AT GHENT.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM BOMBS.

Received June 10, 5.6 p.m. Australian Cable Service.

t . Amsterdam, June 9. The Telegraaf says the Kaiser had a fery narrow escape. He was standing »ith Marshal ton Hindenburg, Prince ' Eitel, General voh Plessen and Colonel Hoffmann in the waiting room at St. ; Petertk station, Ghent, awaiting the train from Ostend, when ten Allied aeroplanes bombed the station. Several of the bombs fell in the adjacent streets and in the station yard, killing five sollieM two hundred[ yard*? away. The Kaiser's party were not hurt, but three Meert were killed who were attached to tljfe Stiff during the visit. Altogether 14 Germans were killed and twenty rounded. HEAVY CASUALTIES. PESULT OP THE NAVAL BOMBARDMENT. V Received Juno 9, 6.5 p.m. Amsterdam, June 8. The Telegraaf states that the Germans unable to bring supplies of rtsh from Holland on Wednesday onving to . every available truck being required • tp toaniporfc wounded, soldiers from th' and the Zeebrugge neighborhood; 46 a result of the'naval bombardment Md air raids. CABINET MAKING. ■ ■ Received June 10, 3.5 p.m. , Amsterdam, June ». Count Moritz Esterhazy has been enttrated With the formation of a Cabinet. GERMANY WANTS HER COLONIES. . Australian Cable Association. . Received June 10, 5:5 p.m. * ■.; Amsterdam, June 9. : Referring the the' recent speeches of Lord Robert Cecil and General Smuts, Dr. Solf, German Colonial Secretary, stated that Germany's colonial programme was very simple and clear. They Wanted their colonies back, and would then create well-developed colonies prolyl? capable of resistance. ( BELTING ON ROUMANIAN WHEAT. Anatralian Cable Service., Received June 10, 5:5 p.m. Amsterdam, June 8. • The Lokal Anzeiger states that the division of the Roumanian wheat enGermany's bread supply on the tyrant rations until next harvest. ' 1 MORE DIPLOMATIC" ANGLING. London, June 8, ; The Daily Mail states that, after abortive attempts to delude Russia into fl separate peace, the German Govern? mest 19 now dwgling a. similar bait before Japan, impude'ntiy suggesting that Germany is prepaied to bargain for Kaioohaa and the German colonies in the South Seas. The German Ggwnment has apparently empowered t'« Vossiche Zeitung ♦0 Stttte tfoat Grnnany is prepared to* cancel the lease of Kaiochau for money, and thftt die is prepared to make a deal regarding the future of the German Booth Sea colonies, because Germany kalda tuch extensVe territorial .pawns tn Europe she could easily impose upon .France the cost of compensations to 9*9afc DEATH OF EXPERT AVIATOR. "" Amsterdam, June 8. German newspapers announce that the Airman Schaefer, who had brought down thirty Allied aeroplanes, was killed in • flgM with a British air squadron. CAMPAfIfiN AGAINST HOLLAND. Berlin, June 8. Thai -Neuast Nachrichten (Dresden) ' (tatea I!hat Pan-Germans and Prussian Conservatives have resolved to buy naWspapers to assist in the ovcrihrinr «t Serr von Betlimann-floliweg, ittStal Hfafanhnrg as Chancellor, and coition* the war until Germany has annexed tile Allied occupied territories. Ufa ppritn Lokal Anwiger has alij^vm < yv dbaMi -