AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMAN REPORTS. REVERSES ADMITTED. London, August 23. A wireless German communique states: English attacks near St. Julien were repulsed. Fresh engagements developed between the roads from Staden to Messines towards Ypres. Bitter hand to hand fighting took place round Lens, the shell-firo igniting tlie coal depot which is still in English hands. The. Trench repeatedly stormed and obtained a footing 111 the knolls eastward of Avoucourt Wood. French attacks on the eastern hank of the Meuse secured a footing in the southern part of SamoaneiL Otherwise the massed attacks were sanguinarily repulsed. We are forcing the enemy to replenish ten divisions. Strong Roumanian attack&south of tlie Trotus Valley were repuked with heavy enemy tosses. A wireless German official deport states: British attacks eastward of Yipres on a 15 kilometres front failed with heavy losses. Our aviators successfully bombed fortified towns on the English coast. Ms AMUSING AUSTRIAN REPORT. A wireless Austrian ofiicial report states*—Eastward of Canale we abandoned the villagx; of Urah. Enemy attacks southward of Descla and eastward of Gorizia and Biglia failed. A severe stmggle is taking place on the parso. We undertook minor defensive i'etirements. CRACiiiNG OF HUN WHIP.' HOLLAND AND DENMARK CdERCED. Received Aug. 24, 5.5 p.m. 4 Washington. Aug. 23. The State Department is informed that Germany has threatened she will not give Holland any more ship steel unless Holland agrees that snips constructed therewith shall be used in the interest of Germany for the -'unit ion of 1-Jie war and five years thereafter. She has also informed Holland that she must send miners to Germany if she desires more than a certain allotment of coal. It is understood that Germany is übiu ,r the same tactics to Denmark. ° A SENSIBLE SPEECH. POLICY OF MlwilT DOOMED TO FAILURE. 'SUBMARINES WILL NOT BRING (PEACE. Received Aug. 24, 5.5 p.m. Ams! I'dani, Aug. 23. In the Reichstag, lien- Kuhlmann, addressing the main committee, said: "Our treatment of neutrals is important, and the prevention of a further rupture of relations is a material point which can only be solved by recognition of the principle that might is not the only factor, but that there is also the ques*. tion of right. Any policy based on might is doomed to failure 'beforehand. We should also study the enemy's psychology. This is important, as we should dot destroy by hard, grim words tins eventual feelings in favor of a reconciliation." He also declared that this would probably be the last year of the war. The Progressives were delighted with the speech. The Social Democrats declared that as long as the enemy refused to conclude peace military pressure must be continued. They believed that Germany would be unable to force peace by means of submarines. ■ 1 <**■ GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S CLAIM. | I LIMITED COMPREHENSION. Received Aug, 24, 11.50 p.m. London, Aug. 24. A German wireless message states that the Chancellor, ia the course of a speech in the Reichstag, claimed that Sl'l.ooo tons of shipping had, been sunk in July. He added: "When wo take iu ..> consideration our results on the dm :mnd and the enemy's failures on tho other, it appears incomprehensible that our' enemies do not show a disposition to prepare + ha way 'or the consideration of peace terms." STUBBORN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. FRENCH SUCCESS AT VERDUN ADMITTED. Received Aug. 24, 10 p.m. Lotion, Aug. 23. Wireless German otficial: Repeated English attacks between Langcmarck and Hollebeko were dm»en back". There was stubborn hand-to-hand fighting. Many tanks were destroyed. We maintained our fifteen kilometre front, exeepfc in two places, eastward of St. Julien and the Yprcs~Meniii road. We repulsed attacks upon Lens. Fighting continues. French attacks at V-erdun gained a foothold in a trench. HUNGARIAN' INDEPENDENCE. New York, Aug. 2S. The Stockholm correspondent of tlie SNew York World says that the appointment of Dr. Wekerle as Hungarian Prc- • ■biier is an important step towards Huntgariaaj independence. STRIKES Ml HIGHER WAGES. ißerne. Aug. 23. Tho employees o.f the Gaii7. Company, the largest munition factory in (Budapest, have struck for higher wages and better food facilities. Two thousand miners have struck n similar grounds.