LATEST WAR NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 87, 12 April 1918, Page 3

LATEST WAR NEWS.

AUSTRIA AND PEAGE. JHE ALSACE ADMISSION. ANGER IN GERMANY. (Received 12.45 p.m.) BEKXE, April 11. ill tbe German newspapers publish a (mil-official Note calling on tbe Austrian Government to explain the Emperor Carl's Alsace-Lorraine letter admitting the justice of the French claim. The '■Tngcblatt" states that the Austrian foreign Office admits that the F.mperor Carl and other Austro-llungarians made yarious attempts to secure a general peace. The Austrian Embassy in Berlin officially denies that the Emperor wrote the letter. The German papers declare that a jerious disagreement exists between Bulgaria and Turkey, delaying the Jbjmanian peace. They urge Bulgaria to recognise Turkey's moderation and her war services.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) CONQUEST. OF CANADA ? RESERVISTS IN THE STATES S?ART OF THE HUN PLAN. (Keceived 2._0 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 11. ■Dr L. B. Sperry (Professor Syracuse University), giving evidence before a Senate sub-committee, said that the conquest of Canada by 350.000 German reservists in the United States formed part of a plan of world-wide conquest. The sub-committee is considering the advisability of the disbandment of the German-American Alliance. — (A. and K.Z. Cable.) ITALY TO AMERICA. MESSAGE FROM KING. WASHINGTON, April 11. King Emmanuel of Italy sent' the following message to the President of the United States on the anniversary of America's entrance into the war: '"The powerful support of the United States stiffens the resistance of the people and soldiers of Italy. With full faith in the justice of the common cause we await confidently the expected enemy oflenjive."—(A. and X.Z. Cable.) BIG LINER TORPEDOED. {Received 12..50 p.m.) S"EW YORK, April 11.. The Atlantic Transport liner Minnelonka has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. — (A. and X.Z.) The Afinnetonka is a steel twin screw steamer of J tons gross and 5,(i35 tons net?" She was built'in' 1902 by ifessrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., aud iras owned by the Atlantic Transport Co., ltd. She" is GOOft long by 65ft wide, lias a depth of 30ft. THIRD S LIBERTY LOAN. (Beceived 11.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 11. Six hundred towns have already oversubscribed their quotas to the Third Liberty Loan.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) "ENGINEERS' COMB-OUT. (Keceived 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. The nw ballot of the Amalgamated society of Engineers favoured the Government's comb-out by 55,0'.j0 to 40,032. ■^Keuier.) j OVERSEAS BRITONS. j (Keceived 12.4.3 p.m.) LONDON. April 11. i Ihc Oversea? Club and Patriotic .league of Britons Overseas have ai igtttaated, with a joint membership of i 172,000.— (A. and N.Z. Cable. I '