AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

THE COLONIES. SOLF'S PLAUSIBLE VIEWS. Amsterdam. March 2. Dr. Solf, in the Reichstag, declared that General Smuts' East African policy was based on force. This was not the peace spirit. Ho denounced the French and British policy of rai&i native levies Onnr.it <'e--ired to neutralise alVoolonie? in !;»•'interests of the white race. S'i- ■''■■■' ■■ '• u> militar-. i-e Africa, but had been forced to fob in the steps 0. el , ... Li« It was true that the British public was making increasing demands '/or ar international understanding regarding the colonies, but large masses io'.lov/" General Smuts' v- ■•••'' wove undoubtedly those of the British Govern ment- Germany must shape her policy accordingly. \ LABOR MESSAGE TO RUSSIANS URGING THEM TO FIGHT. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Renter. Received March 3. 5.20 pm. Washington, March 2 The Ln<l>or Federation has seni. a message to the Russian people urging them to fight the Germans. A COUNCIL OF ROYALTIES. Washington, March 1. Official advices state that the Kaiser has convoked an important council of the reigning families in Germany. No details are available. UKRAINE'S FOOD SUPPLIES. GERMANS FORESTALLING AUSTRIA A BREACH LIKELY. Reuter Service. London, March 2. The. Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Express states that the Vienna Government 1 has announced that the change of policy sanctioning Austro-Hun-garian intervention in Ukraine was due to the demand of Vienna's Burgomaster, pleading that Vienna was starving, and its only hope of bread was peace with Ukraine. The correspondent now hears that German troops are entering Ukraine in order to seize the food and that the Austrians therefore are going to prevent the Germans securing food, which Austria considers is hers. , ANNEXATION OF CHOLIN. TEXT OF A SUPPRESSED SPEECH. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received March 3, 5.20 p.m. Berne, March 2. One of the Cracow newspapers states that the Germans killed and wounded many at Warsaw during the demonstration against the annexation of Cholin to Ukraine. The text of the suppressed speech made by the Polish Deputy Glombinski, in the Austrian Chamber of Deputies, shows that he declared that Count Czernin had forced Cholin on the unwilling Ukrainians without previously consulting the Poles. He described Austria's duplicity as rivalling Prussian brutality. SOCIALISTS' WAR AIMS. WILL NOT AFFECT GERMANY. Times Service. Received March 3, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 2. The Vorwaerts, commenting on the inter-Allied Socialists' war aims, states that Germany does not now contain any party willing to act to the country's disadvantage, and confesses that the Socialists are impotent. REDRAFTING RETURNED SOLDIERS. Reuter Service. Received March 3, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 2. Austrian prisoners from Russia, returning across east Galicia at the rate of five thousand daily are being drafted to garrison corps after a brief quaran--1 tine.