AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1918, Page 3

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

WALKING ALONG WRONG PATHS. THE KAISER'S HYPOCRISY. Received Feb. 13, 8 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 12. When news of the Ukraine peace was received the Kaiser said: "Before the wa,r the whole world was walking along wrong paths. God made us to go through a hard school to teach us whither we should walk. God made an effort to bring one people after another into the right way, and now sets before Germans the great task of bringing peace wherein the world will seek justice and do good."

EXPLOITING UKRAINE. GERMAN SYNDICATES fiET BUSY. Renter Service. Received Feb. 13, 11.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 12. < Commercial syndicates are being formed in Germany, under Government control, for exploiting Russian peace, ineluding new joint stock companies for importing iron, oil, flax, and wheat from Ukraine. REJOICINGS IN VIENNA. OVER UKRAINE PKACI& GERMANY'S HOPES OF. EFFECT ON ALLIES. FAKED TELEGRAMS AS TO ENGLAND'S COLLAPSE. United Service. Received Feb )}, 11.30 p.m. Berne, Feb. 12. Advices from Vienna state that the people are madly overjoyed at the news oi the Ukraine peace, shouting: "Now we will have plenty of food" A Hague message says that the Socialist Majority Party's newspapers di; close that Germany's hopes are largely based on the moral effect of the URraiiß peace on the Allies. Long faked telegrams describe how the anti-German alliance is tottering, and how England is on the verge of starvation and collapse, which the treachery of the pacilist workers is expected to completeFOOD RIOTS IN BAVARIA. WOMEN TO THE FORE* Times Servicfc. Received FeU 14, 150 a.m. London, Feb. 13. The Times' Amsterdam correspondent states that food riots are reported in Bavaria. Women stormed tho offices of the Administrator, stoned tho officers, plundered the shops, and smashed windows.