AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

A PEACE DEMONSTRATION. SOLDIERS REFUSE TO SHOOT. . GERMAN OFFICERS MUTINY. A RETRIBUTION INCIDENT. Received Oct. 21, 7.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 21. Wihen the evacuation of the Belgian coast became known in Cologne, stop-the-war demonstrators, mostly women and older soldiers, gathered around the town hall, shouting: "Make peace! We are.beaten!" Soldiers from the barracks only consented to interfere on condition that they were not called upon to shoot. Order was re-established. Similar episodes occurred at many places in Germany. The Handelsblad states that the Germans evacuated the aerodromes at Austruweel and Orient, and transferred the material to Willyk. Five hundred and sixty German officers were imprisoned at Antwerp for refusing to go to the front. Marines at Rowerslinc are taking to pieces thirty-five submarines and thirteen destroyers for conveyance to Germany. Refugees report that Belgian soldiers on Friday shot to pieces a number of vessels on the Pecliloo canal, which were carrying German officers and war material. Nobody was saved.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

COMPLETE DESPAIR REIGNS. DEFENSIVE WORKS ON THE RHINE. GERMAN MUNITION CRISIS ACUTE. Received Oct. 21, 7.50 p.m. London, Oct. 20. Reports from The Hague state that defensive works along the Rhine, at Cologne and Karlsruhe, have been started. Life at Essen has become terrible, owing to the mighty air raids. Many factories have been wrecked, and the workers crowd underground. There is a shortage p? material. The Allied advance towards the Briey mines is also reducing the output. There is no doubt that Germany's munition crisis is ficute, Krupps are accused of using odds and ends from rubbish heaps, with disastrous results at the front.

Scenes in the streets beggar description. There are many sobbing women and screaming children. Violent tirades are heard against the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, but Uhe people do not seem to have sufficient physical or moral stamina left to take matters into their own hands. Complete despair reigns, though here and there are little bands of stalwarts who wish to die in tho last trench.— Times Service. Berlin, Oct. 20. The report the German press published as a communique, that the Germans were ceasing devastation, is without foundation.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Budapest, Oct. 20. The South Slav Assembly lies proclaimed the independence of Croatia, and is claiming Frame. —United Service, "THE WAR IS LOST." KAROLYI ASKS FOR SEPARATION FROM AUSTRIA. Received Oct. 21. 10.50 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 20. Count Karolyi introduced in the Hungarian House of Deputies a resolution asking separation from Austria, economically and militarily, with the right of managing her own foreign politics. Count Karolyi remarked: "The war is lost, and the alliance with Germany must not be maintained."—-Aug, N.Z. Cable Assoc. TIRADE AGAINST TIRPITZ. THE PUBLIC WILL PUNISH HIM. Received Oct. 21, 7.50 p.m. London, Oct. 21. Cap l •bi Perseus, in an article in the Tageblatt, violently attacks Admiral von Tirpitz, asserting that the naval programme created the real ground for war. The battleships were always inferior to the British, and Admiral 1 von Tirpitz assumed the fearful responsibility of submarinism. All attempts to trash up his guilt will fail miserably. The public will punish him,—United Servks.

PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS.

"LONG LIVE THE GERMAN REPUBLIC!" Received Oct. 22, 12.30 a.ite. The Hague, Oct. "21. For fourteen successive nights there have been peace demonstrations in the Unter den Linden. The public morale collapsed on October 7, after which the surrender of Alsace-Lorraine was accepted as inevitable, though the people are agreed that it is better to fight to the last man than give up the Rbineland and Westphalia to Belgium.

Reports oi a levy en masse led to genera] meetings of protest, especially in factories, and demands for the Kaiser to abdicate or be expelled were heard continually amongst the workers. Periodically someone raises the cry in the streets, "Long live the German, rcpublic!" The cry is always taken up and echoed. The munitioners wages were suddenly raised from 15 to 50 per cent. The Berne correspondent of The Times warns the .Allies against exaggerating the importance of the internal convulsions, but agrees that the German people recognise the game is up and wish, for a peace at any price.—The Times Service- ,

KARLS SCHEME REJECTED. : v O TRUCK WITH THE HAPSBURGS. Received Oct. 21, 10.30 p.m. London, Oct. 20. Renter learns that a meeting of the Southern Slav Committee ih London, representing seven million people in Aus-tria-Hungary, rejected Emperor Karl's manifesto of October 10. The meeting emphasised its determination to sever every tie with the Hapsburg?.—Router. CZECHO-SLOVAK GOVERNMENT. INAUGURATED aT PARIS. Received Oct. 22, l.fiS a.m. Paris, Oct. 21. Tho Czeco-Slovak Government has been formally inaugurated at Paris, with official Entente recognition and Ministers have been appointed. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.