AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

~ • i GERMANY ON THE VERGE. ! t>F LOSING THE WAR. j . Rewind 'lnn. 10. SlO p.m. j ~ : ; ■ Xtimtefdnm, Jan. 0. . Gpwnafiy is endeavoring <• prevent the circulation of leaflets fl'om a suppressed article in the newspaper Vorwiertx, in tviiith it Was stated: ""Many are dying frahv sheer hunger.'* All are suffering. The people will not always remain silent.' Germany in on the vvtge at losing the w&r," ' , ' UIAXtMUf* OFFENSIVE EFFORT. 4-SECOND VERIU'N. ECONOMIC PRESSCIIfc. <" • -Received Jan. 10, S.lO p.m. / . Paris, Jan. 0. A, CJermnn officer tal>~'fi prisoner <!e■lpted that the internal situation in Germs®}' had compelled the high command io-fisk a second Verdun and a disastrous 3?nte by a maximum offensive effort on die West front in 1818. v THE KUHLMANN-LUDENDORFF * ' DISPUTE. £NI)S IN PAN-GERMAX victory. Received Jan. 10, 8.1."> p.m. Paris, Jan. !). Ije Pettt Journal's Zurich eorresponietit state* that Admiral von Tirpita's . irfueAce'Wlth the Kaiser and the Chan:ellor in the Ludendorff-Kuhlmann, dis>ute< ended in a pan-German victory, and '■hiitt ton Ktthlmann narrowly escaped li.«mies6l. THE CZfiCH'S CONFERFNCE. \ Report censored V.IN 6 TO ANTAGONISM TO i j- ' C&ERNIN'S POLICY. Received Jan. iO. 8.15 p.m. Berne, Jan. 0. The Vienna densor has prevented the publication of a full report of the Czechs conference afe Prague, which was antagonistic to Count Czernin's interpretation 9f >fhe rights of nationalities. GOSPEL OF THE GUNS. "3da©HT IS RIGHT." I&AiTOE TO BE BLED WHITE. Berne, Jan. 8. Ge'n-._7 von Licbert, speaking at a Conservative Congress at Halle, said: "Weholdthat might is right, and must . know nei&er sentiment, humanity, nor compassion. We shall incorporate Cotir- "" land with its sixty mlllipn Russians. The Slav nightmare must ride us no ItragW. We mtiat have Belgium and northern France. The corse of God is upon the French people. Portuguese possession! firittt disappear. France must pay Until bled White." A FIRE-EATER'S VIEWS. /OftdlßLY RESENTED BY CRIPPLED SOLDIfifcS. Received Jan. 10, 8.20 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 9. Deputy Furtmaiin, in a declaration at the Fatherland Patty's meeting at Berlit), said: "H the German flag is not hoisted in Flanders for ever we have lost the war!'' This caused tumultuous ■ dissent apd counter-cries of "Traitor!" The disstiitiefits were mostly incapacitated soldiefS, who were turned out > after .a fight with the feather-bed soldiets. The cripples, on being reinfarotd, returned and broke up the meet-