AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

tHE Blatant tirpitz.

fMHjANJ) MUST BE DEFEATED.

A SNEER AT AMERICA. & and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Sept. 30, 5.5 p.m. : Buda-Pesth, Sept. 29. *<l an interview, Admiral von Hrpitz Mated that the English and French monopoly of the Mediterranean must cease. The mere neutralisation of Gibraltar and of the Sue£ Canal would not be enough, as only the defeat of England could save tfi# Central' Powers, who must hold out until the submarines Secure the victory. The idea of America playing an effective fait was a mere phantom. . GERMAN LOSSES ABROAD. Amsterdam, Sept. 2S. . Spteking at the election of a rector of (Berlin University, Professor Penck decleared that Gerjnan losses abroad were enormous. Nearly three Million marks "were in' English hands altfne. whieh were irreplaoable. Germany must begin where Bhe, 9topd"ieighty years ago, but if the loss was compensated for by large colonial acquisitions they need not be fright-. pied by the future outlook. , TheifiHtWre Mochenblat has announced thatf General von Deemling, of Zabern notoriety, is about to be pensioned. It believed he has been made a scapegoat for the Verdun failure. FIRE At MUNITION FACTORY. Received, September 29, 5J> p.m. Berne, Sept. 28. fire Completely destroyed it large German munition works at Emmshopen, pear Constanz. I * SERIOUS INTERNAL STRUGGLE " Amsterdam, Sept. 28. ' Only smuggled German newspaper* are ftmving. In consequence of serious internal trouble, travellers leaving Germany a*e searched for newspapers. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. JV and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Sept. 30, 11.5 p.m. London, Sept. 30. A wireless German official report states: Wc repulsed English local at-tacks-at Zonnebckc. and drove the enemy out of the crater line at the Ypros—iPasschendale read; Our aviators bombed London and. several olaces on the youth coast.