AUSTRO GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO GERMANY.

AGITATION OVER JAPAN'S ACTION. BELLICOSE PRESS COMMENTS. Received March 5, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam. March 4. C.ermnn political circles are agitated over .the projected .Japanese action. Newspaper,; publish inspired comments stating that (Jermnay will not fight in Siberia, hut if the Japanese menace Petrograd or attempt to rob Germany of her peace fruits, she will reply quickly,; The majority of the papers regard the Japanese movement as bluff,, and declare that in anv ease it will take months to render eiKuiive action. Germany will only help Russia if asked, and thou her own terms, < CROWS. OVER RUSSIAN PEACE. Received March 5, 8.5(1 p.m. Amsterdam, March 4 Official—The Kaiser has sent the fo'». lowing message to Huron Hertliag: "lite German sword, borne by our great army, commanders, has achieved peace with Russia. Mv feeling is ono of thanks to. God, who has been with us and is associated v.ith our rejoicing for the army's deeds." The Vorwaerts, commenting on tha new Russian peace terms, sayj Russia ends the war unreconciled, and with a policy of patriotic revanche. Once it gets a lead it will find an easy gams to play. The vdrwaerts bitterly comments that when the war is ovor many will stand utterly alone and un« friended, and her people will find themselves in peace faced hy a world of enemies. AUSTRIA ON VERGE OF FAMINE. Berne, March 4. The Burgomaster of Vienna, address ing the officials d'f the municipality, said that the word "Bankruptcy" might be vvritterr on the door of the Austrian Pood Department. Vienna had again been obliged to ask Berlin's assistance.; The Government utterly failed to reslIse the desperate situation. Unless} wheat from the Ukraine was soon obtained Austria would be incapable of holding out. DIVIDING THE UKRAINE SPOILS. ; Received March 5, 11 p.m. Berne, March. 4.- • Vienna nr.wspapers state that Austria' and Germany have agreed to divide tMf Ukraine wheat equal ly. 1