AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS ACTIVE. THE RAISER'S EXHORTATION. "A LAST GREAT FIGHT." Received Eeli, 24, 5.15 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 23. A Vienna message states that in the Reichstrath tlii' Socialists are urgently interpellating (lie Chamber on February '27, and are arranging mass meetings for the continuation of negotiations between Vienna and Washington. Replying to a congratulatory message from the Agrieuluiral League] the Kaiser exhorted the people to elose the home ranks for a last groat light. DISAFFECTION IN AUSTRIA. i RUMORED MUTINY OF FLEET. Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. New York, Feb. 22. The Rome correspondent of the World rtates tlrat Slavs who escaped from C'attaro report that the Austrian fleet at Caltnro Iws mutinied and that the disaffection has spread, to Pola, Fhime, ami Austrian ports. The discontent throughout Austria is reaching the proportions of an incipient revolt and is due to the Bolshevik propaganda. TIRPITZ'S BOMBAST. BELGIUM THE PIVOT OF THE WARAus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 22, Addressing the Fatherlanders, Admiral von Tirpitz declared: "We must show our superiority to England in tenacity. The Western Rowers constitute the greatest danger. Unfortunately our intensive submarine warfare was so long delayed tliat the enemy's countermeasures impede its speedy effect. We, however, shall hold out longer than England." He added that Belgium /cniaincd the pivot of the war. PEACE WITH ROUMANIA. A SPEEDY AGREEMENT WANTED. Australian Cable Association. Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 22. According to Vienna newspapers, peace with Roumania is likely to be speedily attained, favor? bio to all parties. Negotiations are. being opened on Sunday or Monday. The Central Powers are particularly desirous of obtaining maritime communication with Ukraine, via the Danube Estuary, and will therefore endeavor to reach a rapid friendly agreement with Roumania, imposing only the most moderate terms. RECRUITS FOR THE FRONT. A SIGNIFICANT TRAGEDY. Australian Cable Association. Received Feb. 24, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 22. German recruits at Beverloo camp, when informed they were going to the front and ordered to sing "The Watch on the Rhine," refused. An officer drew his sword on a recruit, whose comrades shot the officer. All suspects were courtmartiaJled and shot the same day. A ROYAL CONFERENCE. AT GERMAN HEADQUARTERS. Received Feb. 25, 12 50 a.m. Berne, Feb. 24. Tlie Emperor Charles has arrived at German headquarters and has conferred with the Kaiser, Marshal von Hindenburg. General von LudeudorlT, and Baron 'Hortling. ENEMY RAIDS REPULSED. Aus- and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received Feb. 25, HO a.m. London, Feb. 2-1. Sir Douglas Tlnig reports: We have repulsed enemy raids. Hostile artillery is active at various points, but bad weather is preventing much lighting.