AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN GENERAL STRIKE. AIMED AT SECURING PEACE. Received Jan. 21, 7.50 p.m. Paris, Jan. 20. The strike is general throughout Austria. A hundred thousand are idle in Vienna. The Neustax workers' delegation informed General Stofer that the movement was political and economic, being especially aimed at securing peace. The demonstrators tried to wreck the offices of the Reiclis Post, which always urged war against Serbia and contributed to the incitement of the general war. A WAR OF CONQUEST. PEOPLE STILL DELUDED. New York, Jan. 20. The Sun's London correspondent states that, according to advices through a neutral, Germany no longer pretends to wage a defensive war, and frankly avows a policy of conquest. The whole German press reflects the changed attitude. The starved people are deluded into believing in great victories in Russia and Italy and demand the fruits which the leaders are desperately striving for.

ANTI-GERMAN FEELING, RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA WORKING. Received Jan. 21, 8.25 p.m. Berne, Jan. 20.' News from Austria shows tliut the strikes demonstrations are strongly political in character. The food question, though grave, is only secondary. The anti-German feeling is intense since Hoffman's annexationist declarations at Brest Litovsk. The Russian propaganda .is evidently working in Austria. The «.herniation of the Arveiter Zeitung is prohibited outside the country. The latest issue available states that the strikers have formed a permanent committee to deal with the situation. Reuder, a Socialist deputy, declared tlie people were being deceived over the peace negotiations.

AUSTRIA'S AIMS. A "NO ANNEXATION" PEACE. Received Jan. 21, 0.50 p.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 20. The Vienna Fremdenblatt semiofficially states that Austria aims at a no annexation peace and does not intend to incorporate tho occupied districts, but cannot tolerate the Russian revolutionary chaos in the newly-created independent States or that the Russian revolution should spread to Austria.

BAVARIANS v. PRUSSIANS. TENSION BECOMING STRAINED. Received Jan. 21, 0.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 20. The tension between the Bavarians and Prussians is strained. Baron von Hertling's appointment was intended to quieten the Bavarians, but it has not succeeded, their demands increasing. Germans from Russia are employed to the utmost to keep their minds off 'the Maximalist doctrines, the prevalence of which is causing anxiety to the commanders. One German division has been sent from Belgium to Kussi*. AUSTRIAN TROOPS IN BELGIUM. Received, Jan. -21, O.flO (p.m. The Hague, Jan. 20. The newspaper Les Nouvelles Btates that the Belgian province of Lim'burg is filled with Austrian troops, who arrived last week.