AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE. CAUSES PROFOUND IMPRESSION IN VIENNA. Received Sept. 5, 7.50 p.m. Berne. Sept. 4. President Wilsoi \s note has caused a profound impression in Vienna, where it is regarded as an incitement to revolution in Germany. CURBING THE KAISER. CONCESSION TO REICHSTAG. Received Sept. 5, 7.50 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 4. As a concession to the Reichstag protests, the Chancellor has appointed Baron von Stein as Chancellor's repre- ( sentativc at headquarters, for the purpose of curbing the Kaiser's speech and assuming responsibility for its contents. RICA ABLAZE. A BITTER STRUGGLE. Received Sept. 6, 7.50 p.m. London, Sept. 4. Wireless German official: Wo threw out the English who penetrated our line north-west of Lens. . We bombed Dover, Chatham, Shcerness, and Ramsgate, and downed yesterday nineteen aeroplanes and two balloons. The Russians evacuated the bridgehead westward of the Dvina. At Riga we stand before the mouth of the Dviun. Rigu is ablaze at many points. In a bitter struggle we overcame sti .mg Russian force i on both sidts of the Great Japel. We prisonered thousands and captured 150 guns on a hill south-west of Czernovitz. RHINE-DANUBE CANAL. Received Sept. 5, 11.40 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 5. The Kim* of Bavaria, in a speech at Nuremburg, announced the construction at the Rhine-Danube canal, which would it navigable for 1200 ton vessels.