AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN FOOD CRISIS. JCITATIQN WIDESPREAD. GERMANY BUMm Amsterdam, June 20. Serfou riots occurred at Vienna on June 19, agitators protesting against the ndaMi InM ration. Mote pillaged bakeries and stoned the Hofburg Palace •a! the Premier** residence. Cavalry • it (Muring into the city. The latest reports from Austria and OIWMf ttow that the Atutro-Btmfkr* fcn food troubles are the most serious that have occurred daring the war period. The agitation is reaching enormous proportions in the country districts. All the Viennese newspapers denounce lie redaction, demanding that Getlnany tlall instantly give relief. The AuatriSi press asserts that Hungary is selUy retaining supplies. The Neue Freie Presse has declared tkat Austria for at leant lis weeks will feNed to mbdit oh vegetables. id* bnrgMMster ef Vlttna declare* Alt If tta reduction is confirmed he will ttfttse to to responsible for the eonseffMeet. Vienna telegrams report that the (Sty tamed fee protested against the reduction of the tread ration, and unsnec««felly appealed to tka Government for lis sa&eeltation. The eottneil explains that the German Government pledged itself to distribute ftotr to the military and civilian population ef Austria from Romanian, Ukrainian, and German stocks. The defcVerisa an now in amar to the extent al 2000 wagons, half of which are for tfviliaM. The food Controller has proceeded to Berlin to ttpedite deliveries. The Aostrian newspapers bleffle Germany for the food shortage, and etpreas tie hop* that the Food Controller's visit to Berlin wili ha satisfactory German newpapers declare that Gar•My is unable to help Austria. Mayor of Vienna announces that applies of potatoes will tie ended next IHek, and that he will not lie respondble for any outbreaks resulting from fie reduction of the bread ration. According to the latest reports crowds Of excited workpeople are assembling in tie streets.—Aui. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Zurich, June 80. o#ing to the reduction of the bread ration in Austria many workers have Iffused to work. An ataoet general strike is anticipated. The situation is very grave owing to the shortage of Imai The provinces of northern Bohefeia sad the Tyrol have been without Luad for a fortnight.—Aus. NX Cable Am®* Received June 22. 2 ajn. London, Jnne 21. Onr a hundred thousand struck at the Vuk*a arsenal and the Warschaloweki aeropttne works, in Vienna. There are cinta in many srinnba/UTILE WASTE OF MEN. Amsterdam, June 20. In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, Henr Hoffman, Independent Socialist, declared that Germany had uselessly sacrificed half a million men since Jfarch 21.—Aus. NX Gable Assoc. BETHMANN-HOIAWEG ft,t> Received J*me 22, 1.44 am Amsterdam, Jnne SO. Bethmaiua-HoUweg, ex-Chancellor, is aerionsly ill as the result of an apopleetk stroke. Then is iitt\e hope of his mortry. fcrnmraw OF GERMAN BREAD RATIOS. Received Jyne 21. 945 p.m. Amsterdam, June 20. lie Cologne Garette foreshadows a redaction of the German bread ration until the harvest Thus, Germany is unable to relieve Austria's Mceisities." great AMoe. THE AUSTRIAN fAILTJtt. Received June 21, 9.45 pJB. x London, June 20. German comment m the Antfias of l fensive amounts to an aimksloo of Mine Some excuse the failure, saying the ttallau bal discovered tbe exact tna tM ffcue of the ataab* MM of the ncwspapew try to belittle ft* Mat, saying that II k merely a

mmjm nwaxm vomer. ImM toftlMuiOMM&agen, June 20. Wnm imriil—M •—* /vi—"tte kttetw* •»- I* ft* «d two otbm <«rM, MlMte JMMmMfcil tor «» pafpoia of K3l ft ic «hmbM » o«wi Smi MftaAo aowaid CM MT»5Sw Vj n* »m

DIVISIONS FOR THE WEST. BBFUSED BY AUSTRIA. Received June 21, 0.20 p.m. Paris, June 20. The Eoho de Paris states that, according to trustworthy information, von Hindenburg three months ago demanded three Austrian divisions for the Western front, but the demand was refused, on the ground t&at the Austrian public would not permit the despatch of troops, but an offensive against Italy wai promised, to which the German high command agreed.—Reuter