AUSTRO-GERMAN CONFERENCE.
FOUR NEW KINGS APPOINTED
A NEW ALLIANCE
..{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association^ ■ BERNE, May Is. The Munich Neuste . Nachrichten, referring to the Bavarian King's visit to (Jerman headquarters for participation m Austro-German negotiations, states that "the hour is grave and Bavaria cannot allow Prussia to be the sole arbitrator of Germany's destinies." / The King of Saxony is proceeding to headquarters with a similar p'urjibse. Despite the Kaiser's announcement tlie Nnchrichlen's Vienna correspondent states that the Emperors renewed the alliance for 25 years and also arranged for closer military union.
LONDON, May .15.' A Budapest telegram says #iat r»j formal treaty has thus far jbee^dra wn up between the Central Poto^rs. }x The new .alliance contemplates defence against any possible coalition of Powers that may be announced. There is no intantion of frustrating the establishment of a universal League of Stations with which the new alliance oan'be Connected.
German newspapers st?.te that the Emperors' conference appointed Kings, for Lithuania, Co'urland, Esthonia and Poland. . ".' ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14607, 17 May 1918, Page 3
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