AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1918, Page 7

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

NEW AUSTRIAN CONSTITUTION FORESHADOWED. Copenhagen, August 10. A Vienna Radical nowspaper learns from a reliable source that all Austrian political parties and the Crown have agreed to the Premier's propositi for a new constitution providing for the creation of a number of autonomous States according to nationalities.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN HIGH COMMAND CHANGES. London, August 16. Renter's correspondent at French headquarters says that in the German High Command scarifices are apparently 'being made to German pu/blic opinion. General von Mudra, -who opposed General Gouroud in the Champagne, is apparently being replaced by the Saxon General von Carlowitz, while General von Boehm has been appointed chief of a new anny group including General von TTutiers Eighteenth Army, and General Von Marwitz's Second Army, operating on both banks of the Somme and in the region of Lassigny and th« Thiescourt Hills. General von Boehm is credited with snatdhing the German Army from disaster after General Mangin's attack on July 18. It is his role to accept failures like the Milmaison battle last October and the retreat from the Marne this year. His immediate business is to take discredit for the next unpleasant episode between the Sonmie and the Oise, which the German High Command expects at no distant date.—Renter. SEEKING A PATH TO PEACE. Amsterdam, August 16. A telegram, apparently inspired, appears in all German newspapers stating that the Kaiser and Emperor Karl held s '■• inference at which they discussed all political events in Entente countries which might create a prospect of opening the path for peace. Some circles regard Herr von Hintze'g survey and pence talk as a prelude to an Imperial announcement.