AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1918, Page 7

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMANY AND INDIA, Amsterdam, July (I. In the Reichstag the Independent Socialist, Colin, denounced the treaty with Roumania, which, he said, was undisguised robbery. The German foreign policy was made by the army Administration, which was taking Rusisa's ships and munitions in order to prepare for a new war extending to India. Baron von Kuhlmann, replying, denied that the army controlled the Government, and added that an Indian campaign formed no part of the official policy.—Reuter.

j REDUCED POTATO RATION. Berne, July 7. The Berlin potato ration has been reduced to lib a week. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE POLICY OF DOMINATION Amsterdam, July 0. The Vorwaerts supplements the reports of the Reichstag debate. Herr Scheidnnawi demanded that the Government should recognise Belgium's right to independence. Herr Ledebour said the military party from the outset aimed at world domination. The policy of annexation in the East had endangered the world's future peace. He criticised the treatment of the population of the Ukraine and. Finland and pointed out that the Government had promised to punish Roumanian torturers, and the Socialists expected that German torturers in Livonia would be similarly punished. The Reichstag passed the Roumania and other treaties, the Independent Socialists voting against the measure.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

GERMAN TROOPS AS BANDITS, London, July 7. The United Press correspondent says Hint tniin robberies by armed bandits iunl ('eiinan troops have become so common in the German rear areas, according to captured documnets, that at least one army has been obliged to arm the train men, sometimes with light machine-guns, and give them police authority with orders to shoot soldier bandits on the spot.—United Press.