AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

UNPRECEDENTED PANIC. ON BERLIN BOURSE. —— ! WHAT MAY SOON HAPPEN. Rewired Oct. 8,11.40 p.m. London, Oct. 7. The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent states that Swiss messages state that there was an* unprecedented panic on the Berlin Bourse on Saturday The collapse wag general, but the heaviest losses were in shipping and armament securities. French financiers state that it' Germany haggles over the peace terms, first Turkey and then Austria-Hungary will unconditionaJlT surrender. The finances of both empires are hopeless.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. GERMAN CHIEF OF POLICE j MURDERED. Received Oct. 8, 11.40 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 7. The German Chief of Police at Warsaw has been assassinated and several police officials wounded.—Reuter. SOUTH AFRICA. j THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. TRACEABLE TO GERMAN POISON GA9. APPALLING MORTALITY AMONG NATIVES. Received Oct. 8, 7.40 p.m. Capetown, ~)et. 7. The Spanish influenza epidemic is having the gravest effects. In Capetown alone, it is belieVed, there are' 20,000 eases. The mortality amongst the colored population is very heavy, and victims fall in the streets. All the schools have been closed, and other public activities largely suspended. The colored mortality it Kimberley is appalling. A medical authority states that the disease is directly traceable to the use of poison gas by the Germans, the aftereffects having favored the growth of a germ previously unknown to medical science, which, however, has been isolated. Probably the disease will in future be combatted by inoculation Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoe- and Reuter. Received Oct. 8, 11.4f1f p.m. Capetown, Oct 7. The burials at the principal cemetery have steadily increased since the influenza epidemic. Monday's burials were 50 (tenfold the normal). The deaths include a number of Europeans.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter.