Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 25 February 1918, Page 8

Central Powers

ROUMANIAN PEACE ADVISABLE.

Press Association —copyright, Austra. lian and N.Z. Cable Association.! Amsterdam, February 22.

According. to Vienna newspapers, peace with Ronniania is likely to he speedily attained, favorable to all parties, Negotiations are being opened on Sunday or Monday. The Central Powers are particularly desirous of 'obtaining maritime communication jwith Ukraine, via the Danube Estuary-, and will therefore endeavor to reach a rapid friendly agreement with ißounumia, imposing only the most moderate terms. 1 The Emperor Charles has arrived at German headquarters and has conferjred with the Kaiser, Marshal von ’Hindenbnrg, General von LudendorfF, and Baron Hertiaig. GENERAL ITEMS. A Vienna message states that in the Reichstrnth the Socialists are urgently interpellating the Chamber on February 27, and are arranging mass meetings for the continuation of negotiations between Vienna and Washington. • I Replying to a congratulatory mesI sage from the Agricultural League, , the Kaiser exhorted the people to 1 close the home ranks for a last great fight. The Rome correspondent of the New York World states that Slavs who escaped from Cattaro report that the Austrian fleet at Cattaro has mutinied and that the disaffection has spread to Pola, Finnic, and Austrian ports. The discontent throughout Austria is reaching the proportions of an incipient revolt, and is due to the ißolshevik propaganda. German recruits at Beverloo camp, when informed they were going to the front and ordered tn sing “The Watch on the Rhine,” refused. An officer drew his sword on a recruit, whose comrades shot the officer. All suspects were courtmartialled and shot tlie same day.

Addressing the Fatherlanders, Admiral von Tirpitz declared; “We must show our superiority to England in tenacity. The Western Powers constitute the greatest danger. Unfortunately our intensive submarine warfare was so long delayed that the enemy’s counter-measures impede its speedy effect. We. however, shall hold out longer than "England.” He added that Belgium remained the pivot of the war.