AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

FERMENT IN GERMANY. SITUATION HOPELESS. Amsterdam, Sept. 14. Tho Berliner Tageblatt reports the remarkable proceedings Of the union deputation to CJouirt you Herfcliug on September 12. A Spokesman said that the people had become seriously discouraged by recent events and felt they were economically sinking. The food continued bad ana dangerously insufficient and prices extortionate, consequently the bodily strength of workers was declining. They must have more meat and potatoes. Workmen's trousers which used to cost 4 marks were now 60 marks, lasted only a (juarter of the time, and could not fee mended. The people's anger over the Prussian suffrage question had reached boiling point. T!he military censorship and martial law lay heavily on the trade unions. They urged that now the exhaustion of their enemies had begun and their break through had failed it was time for a peace by understanding. Count von Hertling assured them that the political leaders and High Command were striving for such a peace, and were unanimously opposed to conquests. As regards the equal suffrage he repeated his promise that if the Upper House failed to agree to it the LoadSturm would be dissolved, Herr . Wallruf, Secretary of tlfc Interior, promised that the military would reconsider the right of meeting and the censorship. Herr Waldow, Secretary of Food Supplies, said it was impossible to get more food, and the meatless days must continue in order to insure the mUk and fat supply. Tho potato crop was worse than last year, and the corn crop only 16 per cent, better. „ Baxon von Stein, Secretary of State, staled that substitutes for clothing must be utilised. Colonel Braun, of the War Office, promised to examine the question of shortening the working ohurs, but this was impossible in mines. A Socialist deputy, Hett Legion, replying, said that Ministers' statements with regard to food and hours showed that the situation was, hopeless. The workers could not weak the present hours. —Aus. N.Z, Cable Assoc. STEICTLY NON-OOMMnTAIj. Amsterdam, Sept 15. Admiral yon Scheer told members of j the Reichstag: "I have no doubt for a moment that we ribiall bring England to ; negotiations by means of our submarines, but I must decline to fix a date."—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOOMING THE KAISER. Amsterdam, Sept 15. German papers publish long comments on the Kaiser's Essen speech. Some ' congratulate him on taking the leader- ! ship, and assert that it has much affected the people. 1 The newspapers are full of articles breathing loyalty, and it is admitted that he %as dona much to enhance his personal prestige in the eyes of all Gerr , mans. ; Socialist papers emphasise Hie Kaiser s 1 remark that tins is not the tima fo* 1 party differences, and say that thif 1 ought to be a lesson to the Prussian \ junkers not to resist Prussia's legitimate ' claim to -Cable Associ THE IDOL'S UNPOPULARITY. . Rome, Sept. 15._ The famous Hindeiiburg statue in Berlin has been surrounded by » barricade, owing to unknown persons nightly Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoo, WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES Amsterdam, Sept. 28. The Cologne Qazetto publishes an indignant artiele oil the exposure of Gar. i man atrocities in South-West Africa, ana . says: "Hypocritical Albion thereby attempts to conceal her predatory-jnstinota [ behind a moral fig-leaf." The paper reiterates that the return of the German constitutes tM \ Syed aim of the Germ&nfofoplef*%eiiter, AUSTRALIA: RETURN OF VETERAN ANZACS. i Received Sept. 16, 9.40 pjn. i Melbourne, Sept. 16. ; Negotiations have been completed to , enable seven thousand 1914 An*acs to visit Australia during the autumn, returning to tho front in the spring. The I first party (approximating 800) are to leave immediately. —Aus. and N.fl. Cable Assoc. L —■