AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN FOOD CRISIS, STRIKES EXPECTED. Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, June 18. The Austrian Cabinet has decided lower the bread ration in Vienna from' 1260 to 830 grammes per week, owing to the Ukraine fiasco. The new ration begins to-morrow. Strikes are expected. — Reuter. KAISER'S ACCESSION. ANNIVERSARY. THE TWO WORLD VIEWS. "WE, SHALL GAIN VICTORY." Received June 19, 5S pin. j Amsterdam, June 18. 'Jk Berlin message states that the Kaiser spent the anniversary of his accession to the throne at main headquarters. It was an occasion of extraordinary speeches. Hindenburg renewed his vow of unswerving loyalty till death. In the name of Germany's sons, he said tho German people and army, in the face of a world of enemies, never in their history had shown such a proof of their strength and right to existence, which was due to their indefatigable War Lord. The Kaiser, replying, said he had always hoped that when danger was most threatening God would supply the right men. This had been done, and Heaven had bestowed upon the German Empire Hindenburg and Liudendorff Proceeding, the Kaiser said the struggle was between two world views Either the German principle of right, freedom, honor, and morality must be upheld, or the | Anglo-Saxon idolatry of mammon must be victorious. He continued: "We shall (gain victory—a victory of the German | standpoint. That is what is in ques- | tion."—Reuter i SOUTH SEA POSSESSIONS. "WE MUST HOLD THEM." Received June 19, 8.40 p.m. London, June 18. The German Government has officially recognised Ernest Kienatz*s book on the value of the German South Sea Islands, which replies to suggestions that these could be advantageously bartered for more substantial possessions elsewhere. Kienatz is the spokesman for the Nationalists, who are rallying to maintain the integrity of German possessions in Aus-1 itralasia and the South Seas. ■ The book is full of elaborate statistics to prove the money value of the islands and their produce. He values them at seventy million sterling, exclusive of 'German New Guinea, where the phosphates alone are worth 303 million sterling. He considers these possessions worth double all Germany's other colonies, and proceeds to say that the real value of these South Sea and Australasian possessions is to be found in other regions than the economic. 'We must hold them for world prestige, without which we cannot have a world or colonial policy. We dare not disappear from the j earth's greatest ocean, if only because of China's, the Australians', the AngloSaxon, and Japanese antagonism. This [antagonism must be exploited to the utmost. Let us therefore retain the j South Sea possessions and try to increase them.'—Press Assoc. CURIOUS COURT-MARTIAL. TITLED GERMAN WITNESS INDULGED.' Received June* 20, 1 a.m. Ltjpdon, June 19. Newspapers give prominence ,to a curious court-martial of Lieutenant Canning, who is accused of criticising his commanding officer because he allowed ladies to pay unauthorised visits to Baron von Plessin and Counts Metterneoh and Netheblad, who are interned at Wakefield. The evidence showed that Mistreßs (Leverton Harris, wife of the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of the Blockade, secured a Home Office order to visit Baron von Plessin alone, without supervision, and took parcels with contraband goods. Lieutenant Canning was acquitted.— Press Aarc. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Received June 20, 1 a.m. Amsterdam, June 18. It is reliably reported from Vienna that a number of Ministers jjave resolved to resign Premier fails to convoke Parliament, or otherwise falls to act Parliamentary —Reuter. •PRESS STATEMENTS. Received June 19, 7.55 p.m. Amsterdam, June 18. The German press reports that the Italians bombed Friedrichshafen, but they are not allowed to refer to tho damage. The Koelnische Volks Zeitung, referring to Mr. Lloyd George's speech, in which he allegedly characterised Germany as a nuisance which must be exterminated, says that so long as Lloyd George is England's spokesman there can be no question of peace negotiations.— iPress Assoc. EXPULSION OF GERMANS FROM CHINA. Received June 19, 9.25 p.m. Amsterdam, June IS. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung states that if 10.000 Germans are expelled from China and interned in Australia, Germany will select 10,000 inhabitants of the French occupied districts and gaol them until the Germans are returned to China and compensated.—Press Assoc. A warai fire in the daytime and a North British Hot Water Bottle at night are as good ns an extra set of underwear and far less expensive. Look ' for the patent "Unique'' stopper. AH chemists.'