AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

A SECOND VERDUN. TERRIBBLE GERMAN LOSSES. Received August 19, 8.5 p.m. | New York, August 18. The New York Herald's correspondent at the American front cables that a paper found on German prisoners, which is being surreptitiously circulated in the German army, says: "The awful months spent before Verdun are with us again. Even the General Staff admits that the losses have been tremendous. Whole companies have disappeared, and regiments reduced to small numbers, w"hile divisions have lost 70 per cent. There is hardly one division out a hundred between Arras and Le Feyre of which at least one-third have either been killed or wounded." The paper contains tw) sheets, and is addressed to German soldiers. —Press Assoc. RIOTOUS BAVARIANS. Amsterdam, Aug. 18Riots are reported among the Brussels garrison, especially among the Bavarians, who refused to proceed to the front. The officers supported the refusal. Prussians were called in and order was restored after 7 Bavarians had been shot and 15 wounded.—AN.Z. Cable Assoc. DARNfIJSTADT BOMBED. Amsterdam, Aug. JS. A telegram from Darnestadt says that er.omv airmen violently attacked the city on the Kith Consißerable damage was done- Four persons were killed and many injured. The enemy lost four machines.—Aus, N.Z. Calble Assoc. VISITORS WARNED TO LEAVE SALZBURG. Amsterdam, Aug. ISSalzburg is placarded with a notice j from the middle classes warning visitors 1 to leave immediately, otherwise they will bo forced out, as there is insufficient food. ■ The authors of the plooard state that their families have been'"without fat. butter, meat, and eggs for some weeks, arid without bread for six days.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. POLAND'S KING. Copenhagen, Aug. 18Berlin newspapers state that the Kaiser and the Emperor Karl had a conference at which it was decided that the Austrian Archduke Karl should lie King of Poland.—Aus. N Z. CaWe Assoc.