NEARING THE END?

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 95, 24 April 1917, Page 5

NEARING THE END?

DISASTROUS IMPR3ESSION IN GERMANY.

OV/IXG TO ENORMOUS LOSSES. TURKEY WANTS FEACE. MUNITIONS STRIKES CONTINUE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association {Received -April 23, 3.60 p.m.) M>ME, April 22. A wireless message states that Ta~ Jasit Bey will.arrive at Vienna on Monday', bearing-an equivalent to an. jippealfor a cessation of the war. . ,The ■German'official statement coafirming the reported onorroaiis losses Km tte West front, -ah® declaa-ing that ihe whole army is ready to die, produced a disastrous impression throughout •Germany. Pe<^3© resaixi this as an official iicfemission. of tfee impos'si--Ivility «f obtaining further victories. Dr Hollw-eg received -a deputation froai the Spandau munition strikers, headed by ihe .Socialist fi«ar Haase. J>r Hollwe® said €hat the strikers were a <$iggrac© to themselves and to Germany. He added that ho sacrificed im dignity in receiving them. A snoseguent aneoting of strikers lmaniinaasiy resolved to continue the strike.