AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1918, Page 4

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AN INTERNAL CRISIS, CAUSED BY RUPTDKE OB«BEA£9 NEGOTIATIONS, SOCIALISTS RAISING THESE VOKBB Received Jan. 5, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Jan. * Messages from Germany indicate thai an internal crisis resulted from the rupture of the •Brest Litovsk negotiations. The Kaiser 'hastily summoned Use Ci;(jwii Council at Belle Vue Caatle on Wednesday, 'Marshal von Hindenburg and General von Ludendorff participating in the discussion of the peace negotiations,; Meanwhile a stormy meeting was taking place between Dr. Kuhlmann and the party leaders, which lasted for seven hours. The leaders criticised Kulilmann's I policy. Herr Scbcidemaim, representing 1 i 11k; Socialists, and Herr TTaftse, r*preediting the Independent Socialists, demanded that the Beiclistag meet at tlie | earliest possible moment to enable tlie people to control the peace negotiations. It is anticipated to-dtTy's meeting of the | Reichstag's main committee will lead to the summoning of the Reichstag. The newspaper Uermnnia, expressing the official view, is convinced that a compromise can lie made v.itlt the Bolsheviks, and suggests the Vetention of the present legislature-: in the occupied provinces, with extension on a wider basis where necessary. GERMANY'S CONCESSIONS. 4N" OPTIMISTIC RUSSIAN' .Received Jan, 5, 5.5 p.m. Pefrograd, Jftn, ♦, The chairman of t;he Russian peace delegation is optimistic regarding the tiitni'p negotiations. lie l>elieves Germany «. » mike further concessions. II ,tJic j;,n", n,.i pr.rUc'iinte in the coninterna, llwUilu ,| j] 10 W. oii the scale of a iemu»} gjum.