AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AN ASTUTE MOVE. TO INFLUENCE RUSSIA. Aw 6, 5.5 p.m. New York. Aug. 5. Hi* JifW Yorfi World's Stockholm tomapoadsnt reports that Germany and ar» being skilfully prefamd (> the new* ol the petering •at of the offensive against Russia. The military crittca are emphaaiiing the jßßWiag resistance as an orderly retreat If flu Ru*Bi«.ns !>onie belief prevail* |jut rH Hfiidenburg doe* not intend an Imaioß of Russia, and is aoandoning tho tttftck after sweeping out the pom Gflicia .and Bukowina, for the purMM «f oosrincing Buuia that the <?enfnU Bvwcn have no lust for conquest.

AUBVIUA AMD UNTIED STATES. tOSQ CHARLES WANTS RECONCHJATKHJ. MffO SEPARATE PEACE WITH RUSSIAAug- 7, 1-30 a m. New York, Au». 8, New York World's Stockholm corfopondent states that Austria is eager to diientangle herself from German tcooomic dependence. King Charles has fc* ttliKt 011 thp earliest posiible relovdßGmOD with tie Uaited States and ~p(|ltll advances to tie United States Kfce expected toon. King Charles U IBxlOlia for a separate peace with in oTdcr to concentrate his armies tptat wy.

A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION. lIDKITIOX FACTORY BLOWN CP. THftgE HUNDRED KILLED. BimiTtd Aug. 7. 1-55 a.m. London, Aug. C. . Th, munition factory to* kfllUoVß Dp. It ia the worst di»Mt*r of kind that hag happened in Qtnaw There were 300 killed, and wuwas damage was caused. A QSALLEXQE TO THE PEOPLE. Amsterdam, August 0. tr * I '*f r fcu sanctioned a number of n«r {ppoiatfitnts in the Prussian WiniAi j. The ne-f men are practically tU fajMftUcrats, Democratic newspapers oescHbe the lilt as a challenge to L£)ffSWRI£RS CALLED UP. Amsterdam August 5. The Keqeate Wainer Journal states ' Uut th* tuthoritjiM have called m> the 1896, IMB, apd. MM Lamlsturniers for 6«pt<mfc»r 2& AOK USUAL LIKES. 2u. apd yZ. Cable Asset, ani Renter. Auf. 6, 5.5 p.m. London. Aug. 5. A wireletf German official report •tatas: Shock troops penetrated French MdtifM at Jvitincourt. There arc artiMerjr duels near Brody and Eybnu*. Mfe are advancing southward t£ tiu Dna&ter in the direction of Chosß. We plowed back the Russians, after * Wttl* from R#danti, and crossed the Sutriua Between, Lunga tad Eroateni.