AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

FEAR OF CIVIL WAR. * NEWSPAPER SUSPENDED. Amsterdam, Sept. 21. The Vorwarts states that a manifesto Jae been circulated in Germany stating that citizens of the Fatherland are in VNM peril than in 1914. The enemy to-day is working in our midst. The Vorwarts comments that the perMM responsible for this manifesto want war Mains their own people. Let us hat* it, bat the Reichstag most take atre nothing shall interfere with the people's defease against the agitators for tfvfjtwr. Th» newspaper Germania hag been •uspended for publishing Herr Eraeber- I f«rs tpeech fully. | KAISER VISITS BULGARIA. j Berne, Sept 2L X Otrmail wireless message states that the Xiiwr has left Budapest for Sofia. Ik is understood that the object of hu vfcU ts to smooth the difficulties between (he Oattral Powers and Bulgaria arising Abb the letter's refusal to give furtner mtiitujr lid. The general talk of no UpnatloM h«a alarmed the {Bulgarians. VBMSUSS6 BUNG MOVED. London, Sept. 21. Btttter leans that the Belgian GovernJMH has reeeired information that during" the past three weeks a great portion ttlkt) effilhut population of Bruges has km fe*noTed,in order to perform military work behind the German front. AD the news Altering across the fronHer thaws that for two months the eiftHtß population on the new German frank la Slanders has been gradually rvfcvrsd towards the rear. Only men Milpd <• vork for the army are being TBB DISPOSAL OF~BELGIUM. ! > Amsterdam, Sept. 21. Ik I aptable article the Munchener ftsnutaß Xtehrtehten says that Germany stfll holds Belgium irmly, and this fact asjrt be the starting point for negotiatint, but Belgium cannot be considered ■epssktsly, and its future must be settied with all the other war problems. fletmany if ready to renounce territorial ead soanomic conquest* if her emenies en ready to do likewise. As Belgium wpedally interests Britain, Germany ■would be willing to restore its independence under a guarantee for neutrality ■aft the right* of the various nationaliThe article is attracting much attention, as it is understood it represents {he onUal rfaw. WHAT THE GERMANS CLAIM. lUetfred Sept 23,11.50 p.m. London, Sept. 23. A' wireless German official report states: After hears °f the strongest drum fire bet night, from Langemarck M far as HoOebeke, the English attacked Hand-to-hand fighting occurred, especially between the Boesinghe—Staden and ypres—Roulers roads, and further south ae f«r as Hollebeke. Our dftisions broke through the Russian positions north-westward of Jncobptadt. The enemy, on being forced back against the river, yielded the bridgehead forty Idkmtttres wide and ten kilometres deep on the western bank of tb* Dvina, PM nsd to the eastern bank. Jacobstadt torn our nands. We captured brer £0 IKXCHBB COOTTBY. ECBLOBIdS IN IRELAND. "* (London, Sept. SI. TJ» Press Bureau reports that nine persons were killed bv an explosion at in explosive factory in Ireland. TALI FREIGHT CHARGES. Bttetred September 22, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 21. Cargo steamer freight to Auckland, Wellington or 'Port Chalmers has been seised to 200s.