AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMANY AT STARVATION POINT SOLDIERS REFUSE TO GO TO THE FRONT. , Received Out. 8, 1.25 a.mLondon, Oct. C. The Times' Hague correspondent state* that wounded exchanged British officers agree that is on the starvation lino : Four camps near Berlin are filled witli' soldieys interned for refusing to go to tfoe frontAlmost all the Germans converging With Britishers declared their resolve to emigrate, especially to England, after the war, as Germany will be unable to support her population owing, to the heavy taxation and industrial depression—Times Servlca.

BERLIN (DEPRESSED. Received Oct. 7, 7.40 p.M. Amsterdam, Oct. 6. Ferdinand's abdication hna depressed Berlin. At Vienna it is interpreted as affording no hope of ft favorable change in tlifl Eastern situation.—Aus-NZ Cable Assoc, AUSTRIAN CABINET RESIGNS. Received Oct. 7, 7.40 p.ra Berne, Oct. 0. The Hussark Cabinet Ims resigned The appointment of a pacifist find democratic Cabinet is expected- The move is designed, with Orninn concurrence, t® influence the TO INCREASE '1 ' 'MRTHHATK--1 Oct. 8. Professor Robert Eitiesrlcr, writing in the Vienna medical newspaper, sulvo cotoa the formation of State matrimo l nial agencies to encourage marrifiea anfi increase the birthrate, the decline whereof 1a one o? th* greatest dangers to- the Central .Emnires. ■