AUSTRO GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO GERMANY.

1 EFFECT OF AUSTRIAN DEFEATS. GERMANS ALARMED. DESPERATE APPEAL FOR HELP. BERTOCS REVOLTS IN AUSTRIA. Received Sept. 2, .5.35 p.m. Rome, Sept. 1. T*e Agendia Liberia states that information received from Berlin shows thai the Austrian defeats have greatly ■Jariaed, German military circles. The Bauer has arranged for a special interview with the Austrian Emperor, who is iatperately for help. It h reported that Hindenburg has sent one liiy corps. . " It u reported that there are serious rtrolta in southern AustTia, eastern Hungary, Bohemia, and Transylvania. No aawa has been received from these rations for some days, but it is known that train loads of soldiera have been Mat to suppress the disorde:.:, which are < OMfetly due to the poor harvest, but the H"*f"U n disorders are of a political naIP* ~ AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. SEEPING UP APPEARANCES. Received Sept. 2, 5.36 p.m. London, Sept. 1. .'4 wireless Austrian ofikhU report datri August 30 stated: ""Wo strong attack* north-west of Kal were broken. Wat repulsed massed attacks near PodU*satoadona and Britof. The Italians entared our trenches at Monte San Gabritfle, but our counter-thrust drove them ovk Our prisoners now number 13,000. Baa&y airmen thrice bombed Trieste in {to past *3 hours. )VBAT *PHT! GERMANS CLAIM. Keeahred Sept. 2, 1150 p.m. London, Sept. 2. A wireless German officia'. report fctaftea: The French secured initial suctajata sear Hurtebiae farm. Our counterttnet threw the enemy back. Yf» Bused a hill position north-eastward of ShmbL ffKBjESC SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. Beoatod Sept. 2, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 1. Germans newspapers report that there kre two thooaaod eases of smallpox in the waft and north of Germany, and, fhat two hundred deaths have occurred. £GSTSIA'S HUGE DEFICIT. Berne, Aug. 31. Ike A«ff«*i*" Budget for 1916-17 yktfWa a deficit of 3,344,000,000 crowns compared with 49,000,000 in 1915-16. Tw» of the heaviest items of expenditon are 1,761,000,000 crowns on wax loans and for support pi aaldiere' families. The special and direct war expenditure are not included Pl4ba feudget. OBSMAN OFFICIAL. fteoetred Sept. I, 6 p.m. London, Aug. 31. A ttfnfea German official message ftrjK' \r« ' regained a portion of the ground lost south-west of Le Oatelet We repulsed Russian raiders north-irest