AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1918, Page 7

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

KAISER'S BID FOR SUPPORT. Amsterdam, Oct. 1. The Kaiser has accepted Count von Hertling's resignation, and has given orders for the preparation of far-reach-ing measures of democratic reform. — Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. PEACE RIOTS IN BERLIN. London, Oct. 1. Peace rioters paraded in Berlin, cheered the Bulgarian Legation, and smashed public statues.—Times Service. REVOLT INEVITABLE. GERMANS' BROKEN MORALE. I ANTI-WAR RIOTING j". New York, Sept. 17.

A cable to the New York Tribune says that the German Government has been holding an investigation regarding the morale of the German people. The inquiry resulted in the discovery that a crisis is rapidly approaching. Ludendorff is discredited. Hindenburg declared that the Germans would not endure the hardships of another winter and . campaign in the spring. Only the Entente Allies would be prepared to undergo that experience. The German commander at St. Mihiel declared that a revolt in Germany was inevitable. The Berne correspondent of the Times reports that the women of Munich made a menacing demonstration against the continuance of the war. The police refused to suppress the demonstration, and soldiers who were called out also refused to take action, and were immediately sent to the front. Reuter's .Amsterdam correspondent states that noisy scenes occurred at sittings of the Berlin municipalities. The Socialists bitterly complained of the starvation rations, and one statement that it was time that the war ended was received with uproarious applause from the public, galleries. The Socialist paper Vorwarts states that two-thirds of a secret committee on electoral reform appointed by the Upper House of the Reichstag are sworn enemies of equal suffrage, and the lull House is proportionately antagonistic. Meanwhile the Socialists' frame ot mind is indicated by a party "•amfesto displayed in Vorwarts, protesting most strongly, in the name of the million, of uninflu'ential supporters, ag» rart *™ continuance of the electoral refom comedy, and demanding the immediate dissolution of the Lower House The manifesto proclaims that tne people's watchwords should be. Awaj with the three - class Par lament; 'Away with the Upper House; Up with'universal, ecuval, direct, and secret suffrage;'^and '"Long live democracy and peace." ,