AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1918, Page 6

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

SLAV TROOPS CAUSE TROUBLE. ' Paris, June 3." The Berliner Tageblatt's Vienna correspondent states that there is extreme uneasiness in German political circles over t]je constant mutinies among Slav troops behind the lines, whose victims are nearly always German officers. The mutineers entrench themselves in a town or in the neighborhood of hills, and are enly overcome after a pitched battle. The ringleaders are mostly prisoners returned from Russia.— Renter. I DEMANDS OF SOCIALISTS. Amsterdam, June 3. A telesram from Vienna states that a representative conference of AustroHungarian Socialists demanded the immediate convocation of the Reichsrath to consider the Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest treaties, which the conference declared were a violation of the principles of peace by understanding. The conference resolved to request the Central Governments to offer a general on the basis of the establishment ef a League of Xations with general disarmament, international arbitration courts, the renunciation of annexations, the granting of full self-determination to the border peoples torn from Russia.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.