AUSTRO-GERMANY.
I /' hankering after lost colonies Amsterdam, April 12. The Bremen Weser Zeitung says, that many Germans have abandoned hope ot' recovering the South Sea colonies, but their products are immensely valuable and the situation such as to render tliem essential to Germany's world trade as coaling and wireless stations. 1 1 will perhaps be possible in the peace J negotiations to pit the conflicting inter--1 ests ot Britain, Japan, and America against one another, resulting In Germany recovering her colonies. HINDENBURG WOUNDED London, April 12. According to the Daily Express'sGeneva correspondent a telegram from Strassburg states that General von Hindenburg is in hospital there with a Blight wound due to a bomb from an Allied aeroplane on the western front. CONTKOVERSY OVER CAKL'S LETTER. Paris, April 12. ' Official: The Emperor Carl's letter was communicated by Prince Sixte of Bourbon, the Emperor's brother-in-law, to M. Poincare, on March 31, 1917. Carl heads his manifesto in precise manner: "In reality my sentiments. I beg you to transmit it secretly and unofficially to M- Poincare I would support by all means, using all my personal influence with my allies, the just claims of France relative to AlsaceLorraine. Belgium would be established in sovereignty, keeping her African possessions." Vienna, April 12. The Emperor Carl has telegraphed indignantlv denying that he recognised | France had a just claim oil AlsaeeI Lovrnin*
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1918, Page 6
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