AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

OMINOUS UNREST. DOMESTIC CONDITION'S DEPLORABLE END OF WAR IX SIGHT. IF ALLIES MAINTAIX STONE WALL. Received Feb. 11, 1.30 a.m. New York, Feb. 10. Mr. William Simons, l.'nited Press agent at Paris, after a lengthy investigation' of the actual conditions of the Central Empires, cables from Zurich that ominous unrest is growing in .Austria and (Jermany. The people must liav« peace or go under. If the Allies maintain their stone wall on tlio West front the end of the war will be in sight. The German people are angry because of their privations at home and the'losses at the front- They believe President Wilson is sincere. I learn from' the most dependable source that the domestic conditions in both countries are appalling PAN-GERMAN AIM& REPUDIATED BY SOUTH GERMANY. Amsterdam, Feb.' 8. The King of Bavaria is visiting German headquarters. A semi-official statement attributes political importance to the visit, adding that the King will speak in a conciliatory manner, but will make it clear that South Germany repudiates the Pan-German war aims. SOVIETS' APPEAL. TO AUSTROGERMAX WORKERS. Petrograd, Feb. 8. The Soviets sent by wireless an appeal to the. workers of Berlin and Vienna to do their utmost that the Brest Litovsk negotiations, begun with Kuhlmann may end with Liebkuecht, the Socialist leader. ,

THE AUSTRIAN CABINET. EMPEROR REFUSES TO ACCEPT RESIGNATION. Received Feb. 10, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, Feb. 9. The official resignation of SeidJer's Cabinet was due to the Polish party's refusal to grant supplies, because tfie ■Government refused a formal declaration regarding Poland's future. Received Feb. 10, 5.30 p.m.' Berne, Feb. 9. The Emperor refused to accept the resignation of the Austrian Cabinet. | RUMORED EXPULSION OF DIPLOMATS. Washington, Feb. S. An unconfirmed official dispatch from Stockholm states that all Allied diplomats have been expelled from Ruslia. NICHOLAS NOT DEAD. New York, Feb. 8. It was a German newspaper report from Tetrograd that stated the Grand Duke Nicholas was dead. French newspapers state that the deceased wag Nicholas Constantinovitos, a cousin of the cx-Generalissinio.