AUSTRO-GERMANY.
A MAJORITY OF OF" FOR WESTERN OFFENSIVE. ' THE HYPOCRITICAL KAISER Rome, April .1. A Heme correspondent says that the offensive ordered recently was made after much hesitation. Long after tbu preparations had been made the War Council at headquarters debated whether to make a new peace oiler, including the renunciation of Belgium and concessions regarding Alsace, or to fight to u finish. Ilindcnburg guaranteed the success of the offensive and won over a majority o one. When the council ended several showed much, emotion. Tlie Kaiser went to prayer. The Chancellor (Count von Mer'tlin'g) was very moody; Hindenburg alone was unmoved. Swiss reports state trial the Kaiser tried to dissociate himself from the decision until the initial successes were won, then he told the soldiers: ''This is my own battle." STARVATION IX BOHEMIA. Berne, April 5 'The Emperor Charles has returned from a visit to Bohemia'. He gloomily pictured the economic stagnation and the starvation of the people, who are obliged to barter their boots for miserable moutlifuls of inferior food. There were 7700 eases of hunger typhus noted in three districts, with 291! death"
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1918, Page 8
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