AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AID FOR TURKEY, A MILITARY CONFERENCE. AMERICAN FORTUNES PROSCRIBED. Amsterdam, Nov. 23. A wireless message states that General von Mackensen will confer with the Kaiser at Berlin to-morrow regarding possible aid to the Turks in Palestine. General Liman von Sanders, head of the German Army Mission sent to Turkey in 1914, has already conferred with the Kaiser. The latter will shortly preside over a War Council, to which Generals Hindcnburg and Ludendorff. have been summoned. General Falkenhayn will probably retire. The German Chancellor, as a reprisal, has decided that the fortunes of American citizens in Germany -shall be proscribed, including shares in German companies. The measure does, not apply to Americans residing in Germany.

AN OFFICIAL REPORT. FOR GERMAN EDIFICATION. Received Nov. 25, 5.5 p.m. w* > London, Nov. 24. Wireless German official: There nave been great and violent waves of fire between the railways from Boesinghe to Staden and Ypres to Rouiers. A strong English attack at Inchy collapsed. We arc stubbornly defending Moeuvm against many assaults. English thrusts against Bourlon, Fontaine, and La Folie, with a wave of tanks in close formation, broke down. Our counter-thrust ejected the enemy from -Bourlon and Bourlon Wood. We shot to pieces thirty tanks before Fontaine. Italian attacks westward of Brenta, between Brenta and the Piave, failed. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN DELEGATIONS ASSEMBLING. Received Nov. 25, 5.5 p.m. , Berne,. Nov. 24. Austro : Hungarian, delegations are assembling on December 3, for the first time since the beginning of fthe war. A REPORT WORTHY OF FALSTAFF. London, Nov. 23. A wireless German official message states: The enemy yesterday repeatedly »nd fruitlessly attacked Moeuvres. We retrieved slight initial successes. In desperate hand-to-hand fighting around .Fontaine we threw back the enemy, , stormed Fontaine and cleared La Folie wood. English attacks against Humillv, Banteaux. and Vendhuille ' collapsed. Fresh fighting is progressing since early morn on the southern edge of Moeuvres. Fighting between the Brenta and the Piave is progressing in our favor.