AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1918, Page 6

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

EVACUATION OF POLAND. & ■SI UPHEAVAL IX AUSTRO-HUNGARY. SEPARATION PROPOSALS. Berne, Oct. 31. The latest news from Austro-Hungary shows that supporters of the Emperor Karl are making desperate efforts to preserve a remnant of authority, but the subject nationalities are winning everywhere. Count Karolyi agrees to the Czech National Committee's demand that Hungary shall cede the four counties of Kurocz, Arva, Neutra, and Tresonin to the new C'zecho-Slovak State. Austria has informed the Polish Government that all Austrian and Hungarian troops have been ordered to evacuate Poland and to hand the civil and military administration to the Polish officials, but ask the Poles to grant A-stria-Hungary a certain quantity of eoal and food to help to mitigate the economic stress. The Neue Frcie Presse says that an Austrian moratorium will shortly be decreed. The public are panic-stricken and are besieging the 'banks. Workmen plundered arms depots in Budapest.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Budapest stales that Counts Karolyi and Andrassy have reached an understanding under which Count Andrassy will be joint Foreign Minister temporarily, Count Karolyi thereafter becoming Hungarian Prime Minister, thus completing the separation of Hungary and Austria. !( a if- ■ ■ "?'~ :, A CROATIAN SUGGESTION. TO OUT BERLIN-VIENNA LINE, •«rwj.** i ■ i New York, Oct. 31. The Croatian Parliament voted in favor of the independence of the Jugoslavs and Czeeho-Slavoks, and the cutting of the Berlin-Vienna railway.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assn. THE KAISER. DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST HIM. -i"; 3 *! Si Amsterdam, Oct SI. Tho,Kaiser, speaking to a number of members of the Reichstag, said the peo- , pic must r.ot think he had decided, to retain the throne. If the interests of Germany demanded it lie would abdicate without hesitation, but the moment had not yet come. It is generally believed that when the abdication comes it will favor the Crown Prince's eldest son under a Regency Council, headed by the Chancellor. The Bundesrath has approved the constitutional changes voted by the Reichstag on Saturday. The reforms only need the signature of tho Kaiser and Chancellor. There are daily demonstrations against the Kaiser. A crowd in Berlin applauded Herr Haase's demand for his abdication and the establishment of a repub-lic—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.