AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

KAROLYI'S SENSATIONAL SPEECH. DISSOLUTION OF LOWHR HOUSE DEMANDED. TO ASSIST DEMOCRACY TO VICTORY Australian Cable Association. Received June, 29, ,12.50 a.m. Amsterdam, June 28. Count Karolyi, in a sensational speech, .declared that Count Tisza was chiefly responsible for the war, tut the financial and industrial circles were also blameworthy. These factors were now preventing peace, and he demanded the instant dissolution of the Lower House, so as to smash the Tisza party and assist the democracy to victory. Count Karolyi does mot attempt to conceal his pro-Entente sympathies. The agitation, which is practically antiGerman, , is creating consternation in Hungarian Government circles. SERIOUS RIOT AT STETTIN. BRUTALITY OF POMCE. Received June 29, 12.55 a.m. Copenhagen, June 28. Visitori from Germany report a great riot at Stettin on June IS, owing to 'a rumor that the export of food was going on. Women and soldiers plundered the shops. The police brutally interfered, killing seven and bayonetting a young girl. There .Was piachine'gun firing during the night, but quiet was restored on the 19th. FRESH WAR CREDIT.' Received June 28, 8.50 p.m. Amsterdam, June 2S. The Reichstag, on July 5, discusses a vote for a fresTi war credit of fifteen milliard marks, Finance experts advised the Government against launching an other loan at present. AN AUSTRIAN CLAIM. Received June 28, 5.5 p.m. London, June 27. An Austrian communique states: We completely recaptured, after tenacious fighting, the positions south of Sugana valley still in tie enemy's hands. All counter-attacks collapsed. We took 1800 prisoners.