AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

"WE GERMANS ARE CONQUERORS!" A BOMBASTIC MANIFESTO. ' Received iSov. 28, 8.30 p.m. Rotterdam, Nov. 27. Dr. Stresemann, chairman of the National Liberals in the Reichstag, in a manifesto on the eve of the Reichstag's reassembling, says the final military and diplomatic struggle is approaching. "SJe Germans are conquerors and have a right and duty to see Jhat the victory ensures our future. The decreased submarinings are due to the fact that as ships are sunk the targets decrease. Poland must not 'be independent. Our future must be built up on German development and power." NO LURKING IN HOLES. GERMANS MUST COME OUT AND FIGHT. Reuter Service. . •Received Nov. 28, 9.55 p.m. London, Nov. 27. Headquarters reports, written in a German order, hav6 been found, stating that if soldiers found lurking in a 'big dugout did not come out immediately and fight, the lurking place would be blown up. A further directing order commands the order to be read aloud to the whole battalion. GERMAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE. Received ifov. 28, 7.15 p.m. London, Nov. 27. Wireless German official: There is the moat violent artillery ing between Sorttbulst wood'and Zandvoorde. We are repulsed by the French northward of Prunay, Fighting actively increased foetween Samogneux and Beaumont, astride the Ornes. PRUSSIAN REFORM BILLS. Amsterdam, Nov. 27;. The long-promised Prussian reform Bills have -been published. They establish equal direct suffrage, with secret ballot, for the Lower House, but the Upper House is strongly Conservative, comprising representatives of commerce, industry,, agriculture, handicrafts, universities, the churches and also 60 life membve and 150 nominees.of the Crown. A (j.\V. v of 200 ib essential.