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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1917, Page 5

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I fcHRMAN SCHEMES IN ROUMANIA. EFFORTS AT REVOLUTION FAIL. Received July 31. 5.5 p.m. London, July 30. Reuter learns authoritatively that Germany made a big <" iTort to secure a revolution in Rnimiauia, -imilar to that in Russia, including an immense propaganda anion;; the army, but all attempts were unavailing. Last week fifty Germans, in Russian uniforms, tried to shoot Roumanian authorities. ITALY'S INTERESTS OVERLOOKED. Rome. July 31. The Idea National* deebres that the Raikan Conference i« Paris nverlnokcd Italy-, interests in Southern Albania especially the important question of the strategical control of Corfu and the Corinth canal, which was decided in favor of Greece, dei-pite the latte ' two years' hostility to the Allies, while Italy ha I been making valuable contributions to the Allies' cause. SERBLVS GREAT AIM. London, July 2f. The Serbian Government announces that, at a conference in Corfu, of Minister.-, ex-Ministers. and the Southern Slav CouimiMee. a far-reaching agreement. v.as signed establishing a kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slover.e-. under the Karageorgev it'll dynasty. King I'eter in future will be called King of the Subs, Croats, and Slovenes, ml his kingdom will comprise .Serbia and all the territories in Aiu-tro-Hiingarv in which Croats and Slovenes predominate. It will have twelve million inhabitants, which guarantees that it will be a powerful bulwark aeainst German aggression and that an unfailing ally of civilised states and peoples will be constituted. The Assembly, after the war, «iil draft a constitution.