ABOUT THE ENEMY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16362, 6 November 1918, Page 7

ABOUT THE ENEMY.

GERMAN PLOTTERS IX ZURICH. (By Cable.—Presa Association.—Copyright.) (Router's Telegrams.) BERIME, November 4. Following a protest from tho Federal Council, Germany recalled the Consul-General and Vice-Consul from Zurich, in consequence of iho discovery in the Consulate of pamphlets, ar-as, bombs, and munitions destined to utir up revolution and cany out acts of destruction in Italy. An employee at tho Consulate was sentenced by default to two and a liaif years' imprisonment in connexion with a plot at .Berne. BAVARIA SEEKS A SEPARATE PEACE. (Router's Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, November -1. A pamphlet, which is being widely circulated in Bavaria, urges a separate peace, otherwise tho Government must be overthrown. HINDENBTJRG' S BLUFF. (Router's Telegrams.) (Received November stli, 7.20 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 4. Hindonburg, in replying to expressions of confidence, said: "Our honour and future are now at stake. "We shall bo invincible if united. For fifty months our army has been unbroken and has protected the soil of the Fatherland. If-the people stand strong, self-sacrificing, and resolute behind the army they can brave all onslaughts." PANIC-STHICKEN AUSTROHUNGARIANS. ESTHONIAN GOVERNMENT'S DEMANDS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 6tli, 7.20 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 4. Austro-Hungarians are leaving Berlin and other towns in panic. The Esthonian Provisional Government has demanded that tho German Government shall liberate political prisoners; also the return of arms and munitions removed by Germans, and the immediate evacuation of Esthonia. Esthonia was a Baltic province oi Russia, on the south coast of tho Gull of Finland. GERMAN HIGH COMMAND DELIBERATING. (United Service.) (Received November sth, 7.45 p.m.) PARIS, November 4. M. Marcel Hutin says:—"General Groener, Ludendorff's successor, a specialist in railways and victualling, has been summoned to Hindonburg's side to decide whether he lias anything to gain by another month's resistance." M. Hutin adds: —"Enveloped and deprived of munitions Germany, with or without the Kaiser, is ripe for capitulation." RIOTS IN COLOGNE. A KAISEII CARTOON. THE FINANCIAL .PANIC. (By Cable.—Preas' Association.—Copyright., (Received November sth, 10.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 4. Riots have occurred in Cologne. Crowds with crowbars attempted to break into the military gaSl, in which six mutineers were about to be shot. The filing squad refused to fire, and soldiers ordered to fire against the mob refused- to shoot. Ultimately the mutineers' sentences wore commuted. * A cartoon has been circulated depicting tl.o Kaiser in civilian clothes with r handbag waiting for a tram in a Berlin street. Pictures of Hindonburg and Ludendorfl caged in prison had a widespread l , sale, despite the arrest of the vendors. Tho Vice-President of the Reichsban': warns the public that tho continuation of financial panic will lend to the cessation of economic Jife. Tho output of notes lias been treblod. There are now 27,500.000,000 marks in circulation. The ''Vossische Zcitung" interviewed Prince Max, tho Chancellor, who said that hb favoured a constitutional monarchy like that of Holland, adding that the military leaders admit that the policy is shipwrecked, and now democratic forces are inexorably fashioning a now Germany. HOW GERMANY MAY BE ATTACKED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ("The Time*.") (Received November stli, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 4. Mr Sidebotnam writes: Germany is approachable by three routes, tho first through TVansvlvania, tho second via Belgrade, enabling tho organisation of the Jugo-Slavs as tho basis of a northward attack. The third route is from the Adriatic through Laibach and Graz, or-with Fiume as a base through Agram. There is u difficulty in creating a southorn front, owing to the intervention of Austria's German provinces. Between the Czech Slavs and the Adriatic territories the prime need is to establish communication with the Bolio uian Czechs via the Adriatic. Wo must go round, not through German Austria.