PAN-GERMAN WAR AIMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16904, 17 July 1918, Page 7

PAN-GERMAN WAR AIMS.

DREAM OF AFRICAN EMPIRE GREAT MILITARY POWER. (Received 7.20 p.m.) Eeuter. AMSTERDAM, July 15. The pan-German paper Kreuz Zeitung, discussing Germany's war aims, says: "Only weaklings can believe in the possibility of an understanding with England. Germany will have no paper agreements. She will simply require of England, .France, Belgium, and Portugal the cession as an indemnity of such portions of their possessions as she will need for the establishment of her Central African Empire, which she intends to develop into a great military power, by training coloured auxiliary troops." THE BRITISH IN RUSSIA. POSITION ON WHITE SEA. AMERICANS GO-OPERATE. A. and N.Z. LONDON, July 16. British troops have occupied Kem, on the White Sea coast, 170 miles west of Archangel. The Americans have also landed on the Murman coast of Arctic Russia. CZECHOSLOVAK PROGRESS. SUCCESS ON LOWER VOLGA. Renter. AMSTERDAM. July 15. The Berlin Tageblatt announces that the Czecho-Slovaks, despite very heavy resistance by the Red Guards, captured Kazan, on the Volga, 100 miles south- 1 east, of Nijni Novgorod. It adds that' I by the occupation of this important railway and waterway junction the Czecho- , Slovaks become masters of the Government of the Lower Volga. The newspapers state that the Czecho-Slovaks are utilising Trotsky's mobilisation in the Uralg on the Volga and in West Siberia for their own purposes, forming from the 'recrnits the so-called "Black" Guards, which are co-operating with the Czechoslovaks and other counter-revolutionary forces, REORGANISING SIBERIA. DESIRE FOR ALLIED AID. A. and N-Z- TOKIO. July 15. Falk Horvat, who has proclaimed himself Premier of Siberia, is popularly known as the uncrowned king of Manchuria. He was a close friend of General Alexieff when the latter was Viceroy of the Far East. His Cabinet includes the chief leaders of oommerco, agriculture, and other stable elements of Siberia of all parties, thus offering a nucleus for allied intervention, which the new Government ardently desires in order to rid Siberia of the Bolsheviks. But speedy action is essential, or the Russians in despair may turn to the Germans. RIOTING IN GAUGIA. OUTBREAK AT JAROSLAV. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.20 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 15. Vienna reports state that serious rioting is in progress at Jaroslav, in Galicia. FIGHTING IN ALBANIA. AUSTRIAN ADMISSION. A. and N.Z.-Reuter- LONDON. July 15. An Austrian official wireless message says:— Albania, the enemy is gradually pressing forward against our new lino of resistance.