AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

HUN VIEW OF BRITISH POLITICS. ALLIED GOVERNMENTS ABE "SHAKING." ; Beeeived Aug. 16, 55 p.m. Amsterdam, Aug. 15. The Vorwaerts considers that Mr. Henderson's resignation is the prelude lo the downfall of Mr. Lloyd George'* Cabinet, and that the French, Russian. and British Governments are shaking dangerously. Nevertheless it warns the Germans against nursing the hope that j |b*. Entente crisis will lead to peace. 700!) SHORTAGE STRIKE. I ■ • Zurich, Aug. lj. Beports front Prague state that 90 ; per cent of the nrunition makers and 00 per cent, of other Bohemian worker* here been on strike for the past fortBight as a protest agairst the food shortage. The leaders were arrested, in■fjadlng 75 women. ALSACE AND LORRAINE. Zurich. Aug. M. Herr Harden, in the Zukunft, w'.iich ftta re-appeared after its suspension, adfrocatej the surrender of Alsace and Trieste if thereby a durable peace is ebUinaile. PEACE ANTICIPATED. Zurich, Aug. 15. Attrian shipping companies have notified their captains to prepare to reMfce their duties in the -winter. MEATLESS DAYS. Amsterdam, Aug. 14. The Vossiche Zeitung announces two Meatless weeks per month in Germany, eonmenung in September. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPOLT. Received Aug. 16, 10 p.m. London, Aug. 15. A wireless German official message states: There was an artillery battle all night long in Flanders. We repulsed the English Foutlrward of Freienberg on both sides of Hooge. There wzf a violent artillery battle between, Hulluch and Lena. The French attack* at Oruy failed. Russian attacks south-eastward of Ternopol, southward of the Trotun valley failed, and we pushed beyond Soveja. We are pursuing the retreating enemy on both sides of the Pntnawe. We stormed the Baltsretu bridgehead, on the west bank of the Seretb, taking "prisener three thousand and capturing several guns.