AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

REPRESSING TREASON. DEMONSTRATIONS PROHIBITED IN PRAGUE. Received May 22, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, May 21. An official proclamation at Prague states that events in the nature of high treason at the Jubilee celebrations in the Bohemian national theatre necessitate strong measures, therefore public meetings, demonstrations, and wearing of enemy colors are prohibited. Young Slavs have been ordered to leave Prague.—Press Association.

ACUTE FAMINE IN AUSTRIA. SENSATIONAL STORY OF CANNIBALISM. Received May 22, 5.5 p.m. London, May 21. Mr. Sefton Delmer, writing from the Franco-Swiss frontier, gives a sensational story of famine and cannibalism in Austria. He vouches for the authenticity of his informant, who said that an issue of the newspaper Arbeiter Zeitung was confiscated because it demanded an investigation into two horrible eases of the murder of prisoners of war by workmen in a Vienna gasworks, who ate parts of the bodies. The cases were mentioned in Parliament, but were hushed up. A woman, unable to obtain milk, dashed out her baby's brains in the presence of the Mayor. Soldiers beg for peelings and remnants of food. The most dismaying feature of the situation is that the three months of greatest scarcity are still ahead. —United Service. WEST FRONT DRIVE. PUBLIC APPREHENSIVE. Washington, May 21. Diplomatic advices state that the German Government is having the greatest difficulty in explaining to the public why the West front drive has not been continued, and the attack on the Italian front has not started. ASSERTION BY PRISONERS. THAT HINDENBURG IS DEAD. Received May 23, 1.5 a.m. London, May 22. Mr. Robinson writes: 'Prisoners persistently assert that von Hindenburg is dead. Probably this is untrue, but a large part of tho German army believe it.—Times Service.