AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

VIGOROUS PROSECUTION OF WAR. ■BOYS AND OLD MEN CALLED UP London, Nov. 12. The Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that Hindenburg arid Lndendorff ai'e scheming vigorously for the prosecution of the war and are indifferent to the controversies raging over the shufflings of Government offices.

Coupled with a great winter effort to increase the output of war material, Hindenburg is initiating a further development of man power. The local authorities in Austria and Germany are now empowered to, call up men between the ages of 17 and GO, thus completely overhauling the remaining man~power. Attempts at evasion of servfte are punishable with six months' or a.fine of 10,000 marks. AN OFFICIAL REPORT.

CLAIMS TO HAVE CUT OFF ITALIANS. i

Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Re'utev. Received Nov. 13, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 12. Wireless German official: There is intense artillerying in the Yser region, near Longerone. Our troops barred the Italians' retreat In the upper Piave valley and prisonered 10,000. We took much material. We advanced down the Piave and are now before Feltre. SOME TALL ORDERS. Received Nov. 13, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 12. Admiral von Tirpitz declared ib was absolutely necessary to retain Belgium in future as a submarine base against England. Any peace without an economic indemnity would mean Germany's defeat. They must remember that Antwerp belonged to the Hanscatie League. Austria must have greater control of the .mouth of the Danube as well as Triesto find the Adriatic. A VICE-CHANCELLOR APPOINTED. Reuter Service. Received Nov. 13, 11.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 13. A Berlin official mesage states that Herr von Payer has been appointed ViceChancellor. VON TIRPITZ'S BOAST. Amsterdam, Nov. 12.

Admiral von Tirpitz, speaking at Munich, said the war would decide whether Germany or Britain would exercise a protectorate over Belgium. "We." he added, "can hold out longer than the enemy."