ABOUT THE ENEMY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17251, 19 August 1916, Page 10

ABOUT THE ENEMY

SOCIALISTS’ PETITION.’ " PEACE WITHOUT CONQUESTS.” “Tfce” Times” .Serrioet.; . l'[ ’ AMSTERDAM, - August 16. / Seventeen thousand signatures were appended on the first day to a Breslau Socialist, petition for speedy peace without conquests.. THE KAISER. ‘ .- HAS GONE TO WARSAW. . f ; ' - Reuter’s Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, August 17. The Kaiser has left Bterlin for Warsaw, presumably to proclaim Polish autonomy. TRADE NEGOTIATIONS. GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. BERNE, August 17. A wireless states that commercial, negotiations between Germany and Switzerland have been resumed. The Germans are anxious to reach an understanding beforo the Allies’ general offensive. GERMANS WARNED. . *. ARTICLE BY HARDEN. BERNE, August, 17.. Maximilian Harden, in an article in “Die Zukunft,” suppressed by the German authorities, says Germany’s worst enemies are the braggarts who ore trying to make the Germans believe the Avar is won. The hour has not yet come, he says, for Germany to divide the world ana settle the future of nations. “Who can promise, if the Russians are now driven back, that they will not return as formidable as ever next spring? France is still ardent with righteous fury and resolution. England and France have declared that the Somme offensive is only a fragment of the coming great offensive. Only the future can show whether this is an empty boast.” “ " AUSTRIAN POLITICS. . \ ’ ANDRASSY’S CONDITIONS. ROME, August 17. According to the “Stampa,” Count Andrassy demands certain guarantees before ho succeeds Baron Burian as Min-

ister of Foreign Affairs, but-the Emperor refuses them.