AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1918, Page 6

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

TRY AGAIN. Amsterdam, June 23. All efforts to provide a new Kaiser hymn for a national anthem have tailed Poets and musicians forwarded 3200 contributions for competition, but all were declined and the competitors asked to try again.—Au».-N.Z. Cable Assoc. POOD FOR AUSTRIA. Amsterdam, June 23. The Kreuz Zeit;ung states that Germany will release Hungary from her contract to supply potatoes, which will be diverted to Austria. Ludendorff has telegraphed placing the entire grain supply from Roumanian Bessarabia and Ukraine at Austria's disposal, while Hungary has promised to lend food supplies to Austria.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. THREATENED STRIKE IN HUNGARY. London, June 23. The Exchange Telegraph Company says there is grave news from Hungary of a strike which is imminent among the Government officials. It is connected with the movement of K*roly's party for electoral reform and agxinst the Government's food policy.—Aus-N.Z. Cable Assoc. SERIOUS RIOTS IN BUCHAREST Copenhagen, June 23. One thousand strikers in Budapest ar* causing bloody riots. The military and police fired on the crowds. Many postal and telegraph hands have joined the strikers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable- AssocSILENCING THE SOCIALIOTS. Amsterdam, June 23. la the Prussian Lower House, the Independent Socialist, Hoffmann, stated that hundreds of Independent Socialists had been sent to the trenches as a punishment for their political activity, while unservicable men were sent to prison, where many perished of hunger. Be declared that half a million men had been killed in Germany's new offensive. —Reuter.