THE WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1918, Page 6

THE WAR

- ENEMY COUNTRIES. IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. ANTI-GERMAN OUTBREAK. • BERNE, October 31. Communication between Agruin, iuume, iiudapest and. Vienna lias been completely interrupted. The Czeclio-SlovaJts out the railways connecting Berlin and Vienna, through the Oderburg at Bodebach. German trains aa-e held up at Schandau. There has been _a violent anti-Ger-man outbreak of pillage and incendiarism in Slavonia and Croatia. The German quarter of Pozega is in flames. Esseg and Pacrak have been destroyed. CONFUSION PREVAILS. STREET FIGHTING IN PROGRESS LOiSUUiN, October oi. The Daily News Geneva correspondent,, writing on Medne*.uay, says: Chaos aaid confusion prevail in AU&tnu.-Aiiui»ary. ooui't oiiviess are upset- Tne iMiiperor s recent flight to "Budapest occurred in amo meat 01 weaaviiess unu intense nioia* depression. He has now returned to • \ luuu'a and is determined to laco every event. In the fading light of imperial glory ho maJi.es a urave and dignilied ligure. ilie Sturm centre is still Buda pest, where the fate of the Haps- . burgs ..is still being decided. Disorders and street fighting 0c- ... cur, daily. Machine-guns sweep the streets and many have been killed or wounded. It is difficult to know whether the Imperialists or the Karolyists or the unruly workers are getting the mastery. BITTERNESS AGAINST AUSTRIA. GERMAN PRESS DENUNCIATION AMSTERDAM, October 31. The German Press is bitter against Austria-Hungary. The Tage Zeitung declares Austria guilty of a shameless breach of faith, 0 but Emperor Karl will not purchase a merciful peace with a kick at a dying lion. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that the Austo-Hungarian Government exists only on paper. The power exists with the people, of whom the German element is the most stableTt asserts the Germans will assert their strength in the German-Aus-trian Council, which has appointed a, Foreign Minister to conduct relations with the A ustro-Hungarian Government. 9 LUDENDOKEF'S SUCCESSOR. GROENER SELECTED. LONDON. October 31. The name of Ludendorfit's succ3Ssor is General Groener. ALSACE-LORRAINE DIET. SUMMONED BY THE KAISER AMSTERDAM, October 31. The Kaiser has summoned the Al-sace-Lorraine Diet to meet on the last day of this year. NO SURRENDER. lIINDENBURG'S DETERMINATION LONDON, October 31. General Hindenburg denies a report of his-saying that the German Armies could only resist for a short time. He declares that this is untrue, The German Army and Fleet will not capitulate. THE PAN-GERMANS. PREPARING FOR MISCHIEF. LONDON, October 31. The Times Hague correspondent writes : No doubt movements for a desperate national defence are be ing organised by the pan-Germans-and other German parties. There are indications of a, blazing-up of the militarist spirit, with every species of excess and wild submarining before the party is scotched and definitely killed. The correspondent adds that in an address at a demonstration at Frankfurt, Herr Hawse, the Socialist, said that the greatest insanities might yet become a reality of the hopeless war. He continued _ "Then proletariats must work to resist such things. ABDICATION OF THE KAISER. A DANISH REPORT. VANCOUVER, October 31. A London message states: High German officials at Copenhagen have been informed that the Kaiser has abdicated.