AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1918, Page 6

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

ZEEBRUGGE SUCCESS ADMITTED. Amsterdam, May 7. The Frankfurter Zeitung, commenting on the Zeebruggo raid', says: —"It 13 foolish to deny that the British fleet scored a great success, penetrating one of the most important strongholds over which floats the German flag. There is no reason why we should not achieve a similar feat at other times- It (behoves our naval command to he alert." >—Aws.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. REDUCED MEAT RATION. Washington, May 7. Advices to the State Department say that Germany is re-considering the reduction of the meat ration from 2(10 grammes to 150 grammes weekly. The Ukrainian cities are near starvation point.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AssocADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES DEMANDED. London, May "7The Austrian* and Germans are demanding administrative changes giving them excessive influence over the machinery of Government in Austria, which the Cwli? consider an obstacle to their demands for the political independence of Bohemia. Dr. Seidler's yielding to the Germans has infuriated the Czechs, wiho threaten a revolt. —Times. CZECHS PROVING TROUBLESOME-' Berne, May 7. It is revorted that Dr. Seidler, Austrian Premier, has ordered the prosecution of the organisers of a demonstration at Prague in favor of the creation of a Czech-Slovo State. There was a great uproar mi Prague, which resulted in 100,000 signi"? a declaration welcomin" the prosecution and declaring their solidarity. The German press is iirginsr military action against the Czechs.—Times.