UNREST IN CENTRA EMPIRES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13141, 2 May 1917, Page 4

UNREST IN CENTRA EMPIRES.

SOCIALISTS ENCOUUAGp BY RUSSIA'S SUCCESS*.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)

Received May 1> at 9.20.P-™- , London,.Ma \ iThe Hungarian correspondent Of the Morning Post ..states that' theshadow of-revolution hangs, over the country. The overthrow, of Czarism has given a fresh impulse j to the bocialists, who number probably one. million, including the anarchists The representatives of the Socialists heUl a secret conference in mid-April and issued a manifesto greeting the Russian proletariat, congratulating them on. the overthrow of Czarism,/and hoping for the overthrow of-aU ..other despotisms. Hitherto" the Socialist leaders have o-iven guarantees of -orderliness, but it~is •unbelievable that any-sane,, man -would gfye these guarantees now that the Hungarian army is as ready for revolution; as the Russians ."were. The Rotterdam correspondent of Dailv. Telegianh says -that, as the result*ol>-: strikes, • the German workmen, have received considerable food concessions in meat arid: potatoes. -V; semi-official statement announces that " although foodstuffs are short, thev are sufficient until harvest.German newspapers have not reached Holland tor six days, 'fravellers- have lieeii informed! that the frontier will" remain closed for twenty consequent UDon great military traffic. - • According to the Cologne Volkszeitung, the German Socialist leaders announce that they are unable. to oTiarantee the maintenance of peace and order in Germany after May Day. (Reuter's Telegrams/.) Received May 1, at 10.30 p.m. Zurich, May 1. Neutrals from Germany report further serious disorders, particularly 10 the "YVestpbalian steel districts, owing to the <fearness> of food. The military fired on thfr-jcrowdsi and many people were wounded. : ■>

GERMAN PLOTTERS ARRESTED. INTENT TO CREATE, .CHAOS IN .AMERICA. , (Australian and Assn.) Received May 2j at 8.30 a.m. , .New York, May i. Two Germans, .arrested while carry_ir # 5 powerful- bombs, - confessed that tl'iey intended -to use them in the StockExchange to create a panic." Received May 2, at 9.55 a.m. New, York, May 1. The. arrest of Wolf Hirsch, an expetty officer in the German Navy, has exposed a plot to destroy Mx J. 1 Morgan's Wall Street office, cut the telegraphs and telephones, and create a panic by the circulation of false accounts of "U boat- raids arid the assassination of the/President. A bomb was found iii the possession of Hirsch, who confessed that lie was impUcated in London and Petrograd plots.