CENTRAL POWERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 167, 12 July 1918, Page 5

CENTRAL POWERS

j KUHLMANN'S SUCCESSOR j | A NOTORIOUS INTRIGUER. | ! 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) | LONDON, July 10. j The Daily Chronicle states that Von j Hintzo is perhaps the most notorious i intriguer in the German diplomatic | service. His- behaviour in China once ) was so scandalous that ho was recall- | ed. He was in Mexico at the outbreak s of the war, and posed as an English- ; man, an o d succeeded in returning to Germany via England. He wasc api pointed to China in 1915. 1 HINTZE NOT FINALLY AP1' POINTED. (Reuter's Telegrams.! LONDON, July- 10. j Apparently there is some hitch reI gal-ding Kuhlmann's successor. A later ! official Berlin message says that Yon { Hintze is mentioned, but a final <le-. I cision has not yet been made. j AUSTRIA REICHSRATH, TO MEET NEXT WEEK. j (Australian! and N.Z. Cable Association.), | , BERNE, July 10. J The Emperor 'Charles has summoned-' j the Reichsrath for the 16th inst. The ' situation is obscure, and it is impossible to tell how the political impasse will be overcome. 1 SERIOUS FLQODSJN AUBTRI4 I VIENNA MEATLESS Aff THE WEEK-END. (Reuter's Telegrams.) • (Rec. July 12, 8.45 a.m.) ZURICH', July 10 Vienna newspapers give further de tails of rain and s<eriwus floods in Aus - tria and South Germany. The Danube has reached the highest, level recorded for thirty years. Vienna at the week end was meatless and horseflesh was sold at famine prices. Austria has lost, over ihalf the coitn try's live stock. SUBMARINES SURVIVORS LANDED. CREW OF TORPEDOED VESSEL. TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ) _ NEW YORK, July 9. A liner landed eleven of the Augveld's crew, picked up eleven cjays af- ; ter the sinking of their vessel, j They endured terrible sufferings. TORPEDO SWISHES ALONGSIDE VESSEL. \ (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July.<"l2, 9.25 a.m.) •NEW Y'ORK, July 10.' Wireless' messages received by the liner Augveld's captain early ori 'Monday morning caused him to alter his course. The liner was not camou- . fiaged and was unharmed. It is ibelieved that the U-boat had warning of the. steamer's voyage with r nitx - ate for use in making munitions. One .torpedo swished alongside tho 5 steamer, narrowly missing her, the second passed close astern. I l BRITISH SHIPBUILDING. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) , LO'NBON, July 10. A record lias been established by ) Workman, Clarke and Company, of Belfast, who completed a standard ship in readiness for the sea 15 days after launching.

GERMAN ? MENACE IN THE PACIFIC CLEAR STATEMENT BY SIR JOSEPH WARD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. JuJv 12,'9.25 a.m.) " LONDON. July 11. Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward were luncheoned at tlie Australian and New Zealand Club, Sir Thomaa Mackenzie presided. Mr Massey, replying to a toast of Ihis health characterised the bombing of the Canadian hospital and tlit l sinking of the Llandovery* <ja.stle as tho work of murderers and fiends. New Zealand also had an account to settle 'with the Germans in the recent mining of a steamship off the New Zealand coast. Submarining was diminishing., 'but he protested against the pacifist dictation oi terms of peace and <Je mand'ecl a continuance of the war until conditions conducive to permanent peace were ■attained. j.ie eulogised the Imperial 'Cabinet Conference, and urged British Ministers to visit the . Dominions. In view of the fact that the Dominion.? were now partners in the Empire; they should be represent- ' ed in the National flag, together with ! the United Kingdom. He might take the opportunity of submitting this to the Imperial 'Conference. Sir Josepli Ward said the war i\vtis reconsituting the Empire constitntion- : ally, industrially, economically and so- ! cially. The old class conditions were | being destroyed. The foreign dump- | ing of goods in Britain and tho Dominions had ended. He urged' an unwritten alliance between Britain and ; the Dominions and America and. Japan for the protection of the Pacific. If 'Germany were allowed to return to Samoa and" New Guinea, she would' inevitably dominate the Pacific. Prolon- •» gation of the war for five or ten years wouln be j ustiiieo, if British domination of the Pacific were preserved, because lie believed the Pacific would 'become the world's greatest .strategic: centre. It mattered not what pressure was exerted, Australasia "would protest against allowing Samoa- and New Guinea to revert to Germany. Otherwise the future of every man, 'woman and child in Australasia would be endangered. It was imperativelyimportant to induce Imperial statesmen to study the Pacific. It surely should be possible, after the war, that the Empire's statesmen could take a hand- in adjusting any differences 'between the, units of the Empire and thus remove friction and. irritation' amongst ourselves. Sir J. G. Ward's remarks are regarded in some quarters as- referring to a settlement of the Irish question.