AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

FOOD RIOTS. JCBERCDLOSrS IN AUSTRIAN ARMY. Berne. Oct. 18. Vienna manages state that tuberculosis in the Austrian army affected 03 pet cent, of the men in the first half of 1916, compared with 12 per cent, in the list half of 1915. An interpellation in the Reichsrath revealed that serious food riots occurred »t Pilsen in August. Seventy shops were plundered. The troops fired", killing and wotmding several persons, and martial law was proclaimed. A SIG2KFICANT~RDMOR. Amsterdam, Oct. 18. The sodden return* of Prince Bulow •« Berlin has caused rumors that he is succeeding Qr. Michaelis. A conference of German Social Democrats at Wureburg rejected a motion in favor of the Social Democrats voting •gainst the war credits. ANOTHER NAVAL MUTINY. Amsterdam, Oct. 18. The Belgisch Dagblad reports that German sailors at Ostend last week refused to go on. board submarines. An officer was thrown into the sea. Thirty mutiBters were arrested. AS OFFICIAL REPORT, Received Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 18. A wifeless German official report states: As a reprisal for the attack on Frankfort, we again bombed Nancy. The captures hitherto at Oesei amount to) 10,000 prisoners (only a few hundred escaping to Moon Island) and fifty guns. Portions of our naval forces advanced through the minefields as far as the southern exit of the Great Moon Sound. whither, after a short engagement) twenty Russian warships retired. We silenced the batteries on Moon Island aid on the Esthonian coast. Our naval utits occupy the eastern portion of Kastarwick, barring the passage westwards.