AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

FLOODS IN AUSTRIA. JPAIF THE LIVE STOCK LOST. Zurich, July IQ, Vieun* .*#«rapapers give further details of roigs and serious floods in Austria a*d South Germany. The Danube reached the highest level recorded for thirty years. Vienna was without meat at the week-end, aod horse-flesh sold at fniift prices. Austria has lost over half country's live Biock.—Reuter. THE PARIAH OF THE NATIONS. V..; THE LAST STRAW. GSftJIAS NEWSPAPERS' WAIL. Received July 12, 5Jj p.m. „ Amsterdam, July 11. German newspapers are exhibiting an ever-increasing anxiety for Germany's economic and political position after the war. The sense of their utter isolation has been brought home to them recently by the announcement that the GermanAmericaa National League, with two million membat, had resolved to actively assist the Mies against Germany. The newspaper Tag bewails the attitude of German nationals overseas, and My*. Germany had a right to expect that German-Americans would have given strong expression to their relationship with the Fatherland, but throughput their attitude had been weak ted lukewarm, though English, French, . and. Italia* nationals worked their hardest. - Pr»f*Mor Dove, of Erieburg, discussing the possibility of Germany exchanging its t cobalts in the Pacifie and South Africa in order to satisfy Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, protista against the idea of Germany accepting territory in Central Africa in exchange for German South-West Africa. i^-Renter. MILITARY IN THE SADDLE. A IBSEAT TO FIERCELY OPPOSE THEM. Received July 12, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, July 11. fhe Reichstag majority parties are .ndignant at the military caste effecting Bason von Kuhlmann's downfall and appointing a successor. They declare that the military party's dictatorship is now apparent to the whole German people. Members of the Reichstag threaten to fiercely oppose the military policy.— Press Assoc. KUHLMANN'S FALL. Received July 12, 7.35 p.m. Amsterdam. July 11. The Berlin press publishes inspired assurances that Baron von KuhlmannV tall will not involve a change in policy. The newspaper Germania states that Count von Hestling is convinced that fletf von Hintte will loyally support the existing policy.—Times Service. : gfil IS AHBAO OF THE SUPERMEN. Received jplj 12, 7.55 p.m. Amsterdam," July 11. The German clothing department has Issued a warning'that if more people do got g» bare footed compulsion will be resortai to.—Renter. i, NO PEACE YET IN SIGHT. ,' VOS WBW»OEWFEBSK)N 0? WEAKNESS London, June 2®The German (foreign Minister (Br- von finhlman), in his speech to the ReichMag, declared that the absolute integrity of the German Empire and its allies vaa a necessary pie-requisite condition ci any peaee discussion. All other <juesttsu, however, be the subject of tt* qusrtian of Belgium, (111 I Mil I irfMiSit to bind herself to ft pgtf would not also bind the snemy. (Hsar # htu.) feffcßAfatag. following Knhhnann, MNr SofiNb ChaneeUor, said ttl aoi'latsad to speak in view TSwSum <* H«sfaad Us iJtmtm • wit* regard to their mm varionslr ntar-

states that, in replying to the criticism of Herr Westrap, a lejding Conservative, Dr. von Knhlmann denied that his speech was intended to appeal to England's good-will. "Have we not in the past few months gained victories of such magnitude as were never before recorded in history 1 Don't our enemies to-day expect fresh blows! Should not all this bring them to reflect that it would be more prudent to indicate the road to peace by negotiation t" NEW NOTE EN ENEMY ORATORY. The speech of Kuhlmann is commented on in the newspapers as striking a new Mte in enemy oratory, by the admission of the impossibility of a military decision in settling the war. The Daily Telegraph emphasises Kuhlmann's unusually brief reference to Germany's military prospect?, and cays that the general tone of his utterances' on the subject of peace and the Eastern frontier problem is an undobuted confession of weakness. It declares that if Kuhlmann is unable to see a conclusion of the war we are in a happier position, as we watch the increasing strength of the Allies, whose armies are supported by sen power. The paper concludes with the anticipation that Kuhlmann's speech will prove the precursor to his dismissal. The Daily News remarks that Kuhlmann excludes Alsace and Lorraine from discussion, and rejects the restoration of Belgium, which is Britain's irreducible minimum. It is, therefore, to be feared that we are not yet in eight of the round table. The Morning Post says that in disclaiming world conquest Kuhlmann is asking the world to disbelieve the evidence of its senses., IMPUDENT AND UNTRUTHFULThe Daily Chronicle asks how Kuhlmann can reconcile the series of settlements in Central and Eastern E\irope, which he rehearsed with his denial of world conquest, and concludes: "It is, indeed, necessary that Germany should revert to probity' and chivalry, if she Is to return to the fold of nations. It is impossible for the Allies to render Germany's Government capable of covenanted faith while its hands are foul with the pollution of a hundred perfides " The Daily Express comments:—"The elaborate speech is a naive admission that Germany, haying rifled the orchard of Eastern Europe, is eager to be left in peace to eat the apples." The Times states:—"Kuhlmann seeks to throw the blame for the war on the' Allies'; but the speech does not contain a single passage remotely indicating that Germany has departed a hair breadth from her traditional creed. The speech is a large, bold professoii of militarism, free from the faintest trace of doubt or repentance." The Daily Mail remarks:"Kuhlmann's ppeeeh remarkably embodies the impudence and untruthfulness which are the special characteristics of German diplomacy." : COVERING NAKEDNESS OF MILITARISM. Despatches received in Washington show that the German diplomats are blaming their militarists for prolonging the war. Sensational excerpts from von Kuhlmann's address to the Reichstag on Tuesday explaining his remarks on Monday at the command of the Kaiser show that he literally struck the junkers between the eyes. He declared that Ludendortf Bhould be. made to answer for the lack of German success in the war, not the German Chancellor. He scorned the Grand Admiral (ron Capelle) for saying that the submarines would keep the American soldiers from France* when there were 700,000 of these troops now there. He derided those militarists who said that America would not enter the rar, and said that the German domlnaoh of Esthonfa and Livonia, pompously called "the liberation of the smaller •peoples," was "deplorable and. hopeThe Independent Socialist Herr Haase, in a remarkable speech in Tuesday's debate in the Reichstag,.said that• Baron I von Hertling spoke at the'behest of the Conservatives and the industrial magnates, and the militarists rgmamed the victors, Hertling, Kuhlmann, and von Payer being only the fig-leaves to cover the nakedness of militarism. It was Ludendorff who really ruled Germany. When Kuhlmann said that the Germans did not desire world-conquest he apparently had not read the recent speech of the Kaiser, which referred to the antagonism of the Prusso-German and Anglo-Saxon world-views. Thi3 reference to the Kaiser's speech evoked a storm of protests. Haase continued to accuse Germany of culpability for the war. He said that the Government could not expect to be trusted by its enemies in negotiations, and concluded by describing the horrors of German occupation, including medieval tortures in the prisons pf RigaThe Alsatian deputy, Hen* Hauss, strongly complained of the treatment at the Alsace-Lorraine Diet. He read a latter from LndendorfT, in wiriob it was stated that Hlndeafcorg advocated the union of AlaSce-Lorraine with Prussia ■miteim ■'jiaipP l i