AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

LORD LANSDOWNE'S , BLUNDER. ■SPUMED IN GERMANS; ►-- s*oefoed Dec 3, 10 p.m. .i Amsterdam, Dec. 2. „ Intensi In Lord Lansdowne's letter fevmhadows the; Reichstag speeches.: Count von Reyentlow writes that Jjord Lanadowne sees defeat speedily impending. , The Tageblatt says the opposition in ' Prance and England against war dictators is increasing. The, Voaefche Zeitung says a union between Russia, and Germany means an end $o England's fule on the continent. The Yonraerts pays the Russo-German fcgnement hj« decided the fate of the greater part of Europe and part of Asia, jiqith England, America, France, and Italy i Jnodest and silent. Admiral Von Tirpitz, in a speech at Essen, says England has won more than rite'has lost. The Anglo-American alliance is a triumph. Germany must have [Antwerp and part of Russia. , Amsterdam Dec. 2. { Berr Von Kuhlmann iir the Reichstag, fe&M that Lord Lansdowne's letter might he regarded as a sign that moderation - was beginning to gain ground in Eng- ~_ land. Ifhe English and French Governments suppressed peace aspirations while Germany supported them, - / V ■ oii.'ii I i A WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN. GERMANY'S WINTER PLANS. 'i ...... > ■•■ ■ Washington, Dec. 2. / Mr. Cyril Brown,reports from Stockholm that Germany will wage a whirlwind «ampaign in the winter, hoping to achieve victory on the west front by the end of spring or early summer at any 'tost She will take eneregtic advantage of the six months' grace before the United. States is alle to turn the tide of knowing that, the New World is mobilising for battle, not for bluff. The consensus of evident indicates that the economic pressure on Germany is not unbearable, and that she will be able to aurrive a fourth winter of war. WAR CREDIT PASSED Amsterdam, Dec. 2. The Reichatag voted a credit of fifteen milliards. The Independent Socialists laione opposed the vote. RAILWAY AND POSTAL THEFTS. Paris, Dec. 2. - The Matin's Zurich correspondent Btates tliat over a hundred arrests have bren made at Cologne including high railway and postal officers in connection with serious robberies of goods and postal packets. CJFJRMAtf OFFICIAL MESSAGE. Beceived Dec. 3, 10 p.m. , London. Dec. 2. Wifeiesl German official: There was most violent artillerying all night astride Passchendaele. English attacks ((eastward and westward of Moeuvres "broke down. Wo cleared, the enemy out of Masnieres and repulsed strong counterattacks after desperate fighting on the west hank of the Scheldt, also westward of Vendhuile, taking prisoner seven hundreds. Our captures are now sixty guns and a hundred machine-guns.