ABOUT THE ENEMY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16325, 24 September 1918, Page 7

ABOUT THE ENEMY.

i FOOD RIOTS IN AUSTRIA. ( (By Cable.—Presa Association.—Copyright: £ (United Service.) j AMSTERDAM, September 22. During food riots strikers at Salz- J burg (Austria) plundered tho Army J commissiariat, leading hotels and pro- ' c vision Bhops. They destroyed much i property and smashed the doors of the ; Government Palace. The gendarmes ] inside fired and killed several. i The Government municipal employees < joined the strikers, and the garrison j is powerless or unwilling to restore 1 order. < MUTINY OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, September 22. An Austrian regiment at Kovno, Russia, mutinied, refused to charge against the French and British front, and. hoisted the red flag. Two other regiments joined the mutineers. THE AUSTRIAN MUNITION FACTORY EXPLOSION. (Renter's Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, September 23. Three hundred and eighty-two persons were killed and many badly injured in the explosion at the Woellersdorf ammunition factory, Vienna. ONLY EIGHT WORKMEN SAVED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received September 23rd, 7.45 p.m.) BERNE, September 22. Vienna advices state that only eight out of several hundred workmen wero saved from the explosion at the munition factory at Woellersdorf. The others were incinerated. THE GERMAN POLITICAL CRISIS. (Renter's Telegram*.) (Received September 23rd, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 22. The "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent states: The German political crisis is developing owing to the recognition by important sections of public opinion that the Entente distrust of the Kaiser made the Governments unlikelv to respond to any peace overtures emanating from them. Many political conferences are proceeding. The "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent states: The reassembling of the Reichstag is awaited with the tensest expectation. The position can fairly bo Baid to bo that the Government does not know how it is to govern, while the politicians in power do not know what policy to Certainly Germany's rulers are trying to stave off final disaster by convincing the Army and people that demoralisation must cease and that a National Government must be ■ established with one policy, namelv. to save the Fatherland from destruction. A SIGNIFICANT APPOINTMENT. LONDON, September 22. | Vice-Admiral Behncke's appointment amounts to a confession that ruthless submarining has failed. Vice-Ad-miral Behncke always opposed the application of ruthlessness to neutrals. Apparently it is considered suicidal to invite fresh complications with neutral*.