AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

THE AUSTRIAN MUTINY. IRE THE CENTRAL POWERS CRAOKIXG UP J -.,«,, Wasbinjrton, Oct. 19. It ft oJPcially reported that the mutinH* in- the Austrian Navy were caused by bad food and the officers' ill-treat-■*M. dashes occurred between the Austrian sartors aad the erews of the German Urboat- fleet at Pola. Sanguinary %hting took place and officers on both *Wes were killed. The tension, which became most alarming, was due to the *wfl*triag conduct of the Germans. Sxtnantuiary measure* were taken •»d tl» flotilla was removed further south down the Adriatic coast. The Aihtria» Admiralty made a desperate attempt to supre« the news which reached ths Doited gt&tes via Berne. Coupled with the mutinies among the submarines at Ostend this news has accentuated the Relief that the Central lower* are rapidly cracking up. BERJOUS AUSTRO-OERMAN FRICTION. AUSTRIA'S FOOD SHORTAGE. Received Oct. 21, 5.3 p.m. London, Oct. 20. 'ilie Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam cortnptmieub says 4e has learned from a reliable source" that there is serious As#o-Gerrajui frktion, and that GerJMJiy has lent 100,000 troops to Austria, the latter being required to (find food for them. Austria has resisted thin demand, pointing out Austria's food shortage. Germany has stopped Austrian mails for Holland since early in OcJtober. Tl»e'dispute remains unsettled. BOCtiLIgTS AIMING AT POWER. Reosived Oct. 21, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Oct. 20. flerr Scheidemann, at the closing of the Wurzbnrg Socialist Conference, said Social Democracy had gained direct fima in the State, and that the Parliamentary system that most be adopted in Germany after the war was only a grotnfe to grflater things. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. Jfewt and NX Cable Assoc, and Renter. 1V BettiTtd Oct. 21,11.45 p.m. . London, Oct. 20. a wireless German official message States: There has been intense artillery Are between. Houthulst Wood and pmut, north-east of Soissons. We landpd troops on Pago Island.