THE AUSTRIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2

THE AUSTRIANS.

A KELIOASED PRISOxNER'S APPR.EGIATION,

(Received March -1, 8.4.0 a.m.) London, March .'3. Major Aspland, wlio has returned from Servia, via, vlenina, says there is growing irritation, between, the Austrians ivnd the Germans. The Germans have requisitioned nearly all the food and live stock in Servia, leaving the. Austrians to garrison the country. The Austrians do not conceal theiiir disgust at, the Germans' overbearing conduct and are fast becoming disillusionised. Many Austrian officers declared that thoy .would welcome peace. Major Aspland remarks that Micro is a. strong contrast between Austrian courtesy a,nd German brutality. While en route German olliOers jeered at. Austrians for a-sstisfing "English swine." Tbe A-nvoricain A nibassador at Vienna told Major Asplaud lhail, the Austrian Wa,r Minister s>'ni<l his Govern uion I wished to behave generously N, lhe British, and the Major admits thriit Ins release with ton. others was a pure act of grace.