AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

COUNT TISZA ASSASSINATED. WHILE WALKING WITH A FRIEND. Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 2. A soldier shot Count Tisza, who was walking with a friend. He died immediately, and his friend was wounded. Count Karolyi telegraphed the news.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. REPUBLIC AT BUDAPEST. NATIONAL COUNCIL AT .VIENNA. BOLSHEVISM AT WORK. CARL CARRIES OFF CROWN JEWELS. Received Nov. 3. 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 2. The Berliner Tageblatt states that there is a revolution in Budapest. The National Council has taken over the j government and garrison, and the police i acknowledge tho Council. The population is jubilating.

The National Council mr.t in Vienna on Wednesday aftenxoon. The crowd outside were waving red banners. The Council passed a law declaring a Constituent Assembly, without a monarch, was to govern the new State. Thousands of officers and soldiers formed a procession in the streets and .marched to the building where the Council was sitting. Delegations of the Council and soldiers decided to form provisionally a Workmen's and Soldiers' Council. There were serious riots at night and the restaurants were plundered. The Emperor Carl, before leaving Vienna, ordered the authorities to avoid conflict with the population, and to yield to the new powers. Ho also telegraphed similarly to the Archduke Joseph at Budapest, who left the city after a republic had been proclaimed. The Emperor Carl took money and tto Crown Jewels to Grodmelli Castle, also eighteen railway wagons of food aiul jfurniture.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

"WORN OUT." TRAGIC "PICTURE OF BERLIN. Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 2. The Berlinske Tidenne's Berlin correspondent, under the heading "Worn OutJ" genes* a tragic picture of the pres\enfciconditiott of the Berlin streets, which iar& overflowing with cripples, and says tthat the people are no longer 'able to i«ndureithe»sight of suffering. - There is' <no good food in the shops, And even the substitutes are failing, ffiramcars-■are falling to .pieces, and the 'asphalt is destroyed by the steel tyres. •Yet.immorality is rampant; it is Berlin's

TENSION IN GERMANY. I OVER ALLIES' TEEMS. J CROWN COUNCIL MEETING, KAISER KEEPS OUT OF SIGHT. Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 2. Telegrams from Germany show that tension is increasing hourly. The Allies' terms are awaited with terrible anxiety The Vorwaerts says: We shall read the terms with burning hearts and extreme indignation, but we shall accept them and swallow it all because there is nothing else to do. The Crown Council at Berlin lasted from five in the evening till midnight on Thursday, and reached most important decisions. Prince Max went to the front on Friday. Dr. Solf announces that the leading financiers will assist in the German peace negotiations. Germany will endeavor to regain her colonies. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against the Kaiser, and the general belief is that his abdication is only a matter of days. The Kaiser has been avoiding all appearances in public for some time. He slipped off to Imperial headquarters in the dead of night.

AUSTRIA'S POSITION HOPELESS. 23 DIVISIONS MUTINY. OCCUPATION OF VIENNA FEARED. VIOLENT OUTBREAKS BY NATIONALITIES. Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. Berne, Nov. 2. Viennese newspapers state that the Austrian military situation ia hopeless. divisions, composed of various nationalities, mutinied and left the Italian front. They are fighting amnag themselves. The deserters have formed themselves into so-called "Grean" (? Green) Guards. They have already reached lilagenfurst Veldes. It is feared that the Entente will soon occupy German Austria, and even Vienna. Throughout Slavonia and Croatia there "are violent outbreaks against the Germans and Magyars, whose property is Doing pillaged. The German quarter of Poziga is aflame, and Easeg Pocrak is almost destroyed. The Czechs at Prague compelled the German business people and banks to display the French colors.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

- CHAOS IN VIENNA. STREET FIGHTING IN BUDAPEST. SOLDIERS TAKE TO PILLAGING. Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 2. Vienna telegrams state that the internal situation of Austria-Hungary is even more chaotic. The proclamation of a republic at Vienna is hourly expected, while the Czech National Council has -proclaimed a republic at Prague. Street fighting continues at Budapest, and it is still doubtful whether Count Karolyi or the Bolsheviks are gaining the upper hand, though Count Karolyi claims that the Hungarian National ■Council is now controlling the countiy. Thousands of troops are flocking from the front, entirely uncontrollable, and large bands of soldiers are going into the country, pillaging in all directions.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

RUSSIAN EXAMPLE FOLLOWED SOCIALISTS DEMAND SOVIETS, Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 2. The Muenchner Post states that the Socialists demalid that all generals receiving money from Krupp's shall be prosecuted. Practically all high officers writing in the Pan-German papers are on Krupp's salary list. ' Mr. Ransome, writing from Stockholm, says neutral travellers statp. that the conditions in Germany are exactly parallel to those of Russia before the March revolution. Scheidemann's party is thoroughly discredited. Huge quantities of Socialist leaflets are circulating, demanding the formation of Soviets. Desertions from the army are only comparable with those of Russia in 1917. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.