AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES. BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE ENEMY FOR TEN DAYS. Received Dec. 7, 10 p.m. London, Dec. 8, The Central Powers and Russia have agreed to the suspension of hostilities between the 7th and the 17th. A GERMAN REPORT. ALLEGED CAPTURE OF WESTERN POSITIONS. ' Received (Dec. 7, 8.30 p.m. London, Dec, 7. Wireless German official: We stofmed trenches southward and south-west of Moeuvres and pressed forward our position* between Moeuvres and Marcoing, withdrawing to the 'heights northward and eastward of Flesquieres. We captured Graincourt, Anneux Cantaing, and Noyelles heights, northward of Marcoing, p«netrating to a depth of four kilometres on a front of ten kilometres. The retreating enemy fired the villages. Our prisoners are now 0000, guns 158, and machine-guns 716. The Austro-TTungarians stormed and maintained strong Italian positions at Mclette, prisonering 11,000 men and taking 60 guns. POLYGAMY A WAR NECESSITY. Chicago, Dee. fi. The Daily News' Hague correspondent says that many German newspapers refer to polygamy as the eventual war necessity. Pamphlets are being circulated among the German army stating that polygamy will bo officially introduced in Germany as a menus of getting a large army.