AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

j ANOTHER POLITICAL CRISIS. j RIVAL FACTIONS. I RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ENGLAND wanted. , feeived Aug. '2O, 10.10 p.m. London, Aug. 20. Newspapers announce Unit Count Andresny has succeeded to the Premiership. Though the crisis is ostensibly due to the electoral reform dispute, it is really ittr.butahie to a vital difference on the peae<; and war policy; Count Esterhazy vainly tried to reconcile the views of the Emperor with .those of Count Tisza. A section of the latter's supporters demanded the vigorous prosecution of the war. The former favored an early peace by compromise, and a rapproohemons with England and internal democratisation. Count Esterhazr sought a third course by promising autonomy to tho subject nationalities of the kingdom. STRIKES AT KRUPP'S. KAISER VISITS HTS FLEET.

Received Aug. 20, 9.3 C p.m. Amsterdam, Aug. 20. .he Lckal Anzciger stales that hundreds af workmen it Krupp's factories at Madgeburg have struck o-.t-r the arrest ot one of the leaders on a charge of spreading a seditious pamphlet urging a general strike on Aug. 15. The Kaieer visited the fleet at Wilhelnshaven and Heligoland. TYRANNY OVER SIAMESE. GERMANS IN LIBERIA INTERNED. Received Aug. 20. 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Aug. 10. All Siamese property and money in Germany has been confiscated, and eighteen Siamese have been interned. The Spanish Ambassador has notified Germany that Germans in Liberia have been sent to a camp in the south of France, ami that ali have been arrested. SIGNS OP PASSING OP AUTOCRACY . New York, A,ug. 19. tvlr Charles Crasty, the New York Times' Paris correspondent, after a trip to Switzerland and the fullest investigation, believes it is vain to hope for any popular upheaval in Germany before the war ends. However, there are few peoplo willing to believe that autocracy will last beyond the present Kaiser. Germany is held in the grip of discipline, but there is, unrest. Tha soldiers are willing to fight and liste.i to f ommandu, but when the war is over and tiiey return home they will noi be convent to livo tmosr rm autocracy which is able capriciously to involve the nation in war.