AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRIA BORDERING ON PANIC. SERIOUS INTERNAL TROUBLES. INTRIGUE IN SWITZERLAND. Received Aug. 20, 1.30 a.m. New York, Aug. 28. The New York Times' Paris correspondent reports that advices from Switzerland state the Austrians are bordering on panic. Vienna newspapers are barely venturing to discuss the military situation. There are serious internal troubles in Bohemia and Transylvania. The failure of the peace manoeuvres is 11 terrible blow. Berne is becoming the centre of Austrian intrigue, much whereof i 9 pro-Ally. NEBULOUS REFORMS. AN EXPERIMENTAL COMMISSION. Received Aug. 28. 8.15 p.m. Amsterdam, Aug. 27. Dr. Michaelis (the Chancellor), explaining the Parliamentary Commission, emphasised that it would deal with definite questions, such as the Papal Note, but would not deal with general questions. The commisbion was aa experiment, and a possible step towards internal political modification. He reiterated that he <iid not believe in the 'wisdom of far-reaching changes in war time, but promised that Prussian electoral reforms would be duly enacted. The Reichstag Committee generally favored the idea of the new commission, but the Independent Socialists are dissatisfied, and the Conservatives received the suggestion frigidly. ' ' ! GERMAN CASUALTIES. I ■ Christiania. Aug. 27. > One thousand Ave hundred and flftytiine lists of German casualties, contain- ! ing 19,802 pages of three columns with 00 names in each "ohimn, have arrived 1 during the war. The total .sufficiently j explains the Germans' cessation of the publication of the lists. (The lists as described would contain 3,34(3,040 names.) AN OFFICIAL FABRICATION. Received Aug. 28, 7.50 p.m. London, Aug. 27. Wireless German official: A strong English attack westward of Ypres failed. ' We captured important positions east- ; ward of Cernouitz and took a thousand j prisoners. We also took six guns.