WITHIN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 226, 12 June 1918, Page 5

WITHIN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRIES

REIGN. OF TERROR IN AUSTRIA

EMPEROR A GERMANISED

AUTOCRAT

Paris, June 10. Austrian advices from Switzerland state that the country is iu tho grip of ii reign .of terror. The Government ie shooting, arresting, or banishing all upon whom tho slightest suspicion rests. A large number oi deputies, mayors, councillors, and even pnesls havo been imprisoned. The political prisoners total tens of thousands.

Emperor Karl, under German pressure, is ruling more autocratically than any previous ruler.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE THREATENED SPLIT OVER POLAND Amsterdam, June 10. The' "Weser Zeitun[{" hopes that tho sharp difference of /opinion between the Hermans and Austriaus concerninc Poland will not endanger the Alliance between the two Powers. It points out tiiat Baron Burian de Kajecz, Austrian Foreign Minister, favours "an Austro-Pol-_ isji solution, which. Count Hertling, the' imperial Chancellor, strongly deprecates. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AN AMBITIOUS SCHEME. London, June 10. Dr. von Payer, tho German Vice-Chan-cellor, has outlinwl to a representative of tho "Nieue Freio Presae" (Vienna) an ambitious scheme for tho settlement of a political and economical union of Austria and Germany with Poland and the northern border States. Von Payer hopes for tlio disappearance of the Customs frontiei, and the inclusion- of the Balkan States, and even Turkey. A great feature of the project is similarity in tho training, arming, equipment, and supply system .of the armies of tho countries con-cerned.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SCHIEDEHANN BECOMES A PAWN THE NEW SOCIALISM IN GERMANY. Amsterdam, June 10. Herr Schiodemaini, ,i'aili>r of the Socialist Majority, has accepted the Vice-Presi-doncy of the Eeichstaß, and promised to attend the Kaiser and Court. Tho majority of the Socialist party has approved Herr Schiedemann's action.—Aub.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' : big explosmTt breslau ' Zurich, Juno 10. Bj a largo explosion in a W munition factory near Breelan six people were killed and two hundred injured.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.