AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. HUN GOVERNMENT'S HOPE. Received Oct. 1, 10 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 30. 3lob<> important results are expected from the Reichstag Committee decisions. The Government' doubtless reckons to open peace negotiations at a not remote date. Socialists do not regard Dr. Michaelis' demand for a free hand in Belgium as indicating annexation. They merely consider Belgium should he regarded as a valuable <;ard tol play in the peace negotiations.

GERMAN OFFICIAL Received Oct. 1, 10 p.m. London, Oct. 1. Wireless German official: There is strong artiflerying on the coast between the Ysor and the Comines-Ypres canal. Aviators attacked docks and warehouses in London, also at Ramagate, Sheerness, and /Margate, and caused conflagrations. All the machines returned. ENCOURAGING IMMORALITY. Berne, Sept. 30. The German Government'has offered a premium of 500 marks to every poor unmarried woman bearing a child; The Government will also contribute to its support for the first fourteen years. Such children will be considered legitimate*.

The Emperor Karl has issued a decree legitimatising illegitimate chil* dren born in. Austria since the beginning of the-war, OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA.

Received Oct. 1. 5.5 p.m. Berne, Sept. 30. The Tagwacht is informed that up to the end of August there were 2000 cases of cholera at Mannheim and GOO deaths. |