AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMAN PROTECTION. A GILBERTIAX DISPATCH.' /'uricii, March 14. A wireless message says that German official agencies have circulated a dispatch from Berlin suggesting that Gevmanv, ps the protectress of small defenceless nations, may find it necessary to mice pleasures to protect Russia from the- -Japanese.

The dispatch argues her benefaction to Courland, Esthonia, Lithuania and FinUr.;- 1 . may be followed hy the salvation of Russia from the Asiatic peril. The whole disnateh is perfidiously calculated to justify before neutrals Germany's further advance into Russia in def.-nee of the p.Vee treaty with Russia.

ATTEMPTS TO Di-TKTVE ALLIES. Amsterdam, March 14. ■ The Kaiser, Crown Prince Hindenburg and Luderdorff ar.i coming to Brussels at the end of the week to visit the Flanders front in connection with the imp-nding offensive, which will probably be most violent at Ypres, Germany's next objective being Dunkirk.

PANIC OVER GRAFT DISCLOSURES. Washington, March 14. There was a penie on the, Berlin Stock Eyelianae following the ■ Wholesale graft disclosures with regard to motor companies.

BALKANS EXORBITANT DEMANDS ON ICOUMANIA. Washington, March 14. Advices from Jassy state that the Central Powers are makincr more exorbitant demands f.-. - the possession of Roumanian territory by Austria.

SERBIA DENIES PEACE POURPARLERS. London, March 14. The Press Bureau reports that the Serbian Legation emphatically denies the rumors circulated by Germany of peace pourparlers between Serbia and her enemies.

COALITION SERBIAN GOVERNMENT. London, March 14. A Corfu correspondent reports that the Crown Prince has accepted the resignation of the Pasiteh Cabinet and conferred with the party leaders with a view to the formation of a Coalition Government-