AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1918, Page 7

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

AUSTRO-HHNGARIAN CHAOS. SOCIALISTS DOMINANT. London, June 24. Although Dr. Seidler'a resignation lias been constantly canvassed and has been the subject of many false reports and rumors, there seems little doubt that the whole Cabinet is now out of office. The Daily Telegraph says that un- : doubtedly the defeat at the Piave helped to precipitate the crisis, but it is pointed out that the situation was already serious and that the internal condition of Austro-Htmgary is now in a stata of complete chaos. The Exchange Telegraph Association's Zurich correspondent says that the Socialists axe masters of the situation and will not be content with reconstruction ! under Dr. Seidler, but demand a new Parliament. The Poles are equally firm. The appointment of their new leader, Dr. Tertil, amounted to open defiance of the Government. It was probably largely influenced by Dr. Seidler's decision, which news from the Piave clinched. The Neue Freie Press admits that the internal condition wa3 never more serious, and that the outlook is equally black in Hungary. A general strike is , prevailing at Budapest and all munition factories and railway engine works ! are closed. The tramways are still run- I ning, but cavalry are patrolling the | streets and dispersing demonstrators.— i Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. I I A PEACE MANIFESTO. ! Paris, June 24. ; The Humanite publishes a suppressed I manifesto issued by the German Inde- , pendent Socialists, vigorously protesting against the prolongation of the war. I The protest declares thjit the peace imposed in the cast by the German sword has provoked intense rancour and danger. The German forces will soon enter on a fresh struggle for the domination of the world. The policy of reaction at home is growing similarly to the foreign policy in violence. This is i proved by the refusal of the solemnly j promised right of equal suffrage in Prus- j sia. Moreover, the already unbearable conditions of life have been aggravated by the fact that the peace gained by violence in the East has not given tlio Germans the bread so often promised.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. FOOD SHORTAGE"TOCREASINGf. Copenhagen, June 24. I Hen - Muller informed the Reichstag Food Committee that it was impossible : to increase the meat ration. It might even be necessary to lower it or to in- , troduce meatless weeks throughout Ger» I many.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. CONDITIONS IN GERMANY. ! New York, .Tune 24. j .An American woman, who has been j resident in Germany since tile beginning of the war, has just arrived at an , Atlantic port. She wore paper clothes J when she left Germany. She and her family were so emaciated because of malnutrition that they had to leave Germany, where the conditions are now j at the worst. The morale of the Ger- j man people is getting low. Wounded ; soldiers in hospital are ill-nourished. — . Aus N.Z. Cable Assoc. ! ____________ l | When you feel a cold coming on, don't wait until it has gripped von, but take • KaZOL atone®