GERMANY AND AUSTRIA;

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145903, 9 August 1917, Page 3

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA;

THE PEACE RESOLUTION. • A PUT-UP JOB. I (Received August 9, 9.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 8. Speaking at Augsburg, Herr Fehrenbaeh, mover of the Reichstag peace resolution on July 20, admitted that the political leaders concocted the resolution at Herr Schoideniann’s suggestion in order to enable Socialists to reassure their constituents and vote war credits. WARLIKE PROFESSORS. DISCOUNTENANCE PEACE OFFERS (Received August 9, 8.43 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 8. Seventy-eight professors at Bonn University signed a petition urging the Germans never to make another peace olfer, as England had answered the recent ones by a challenge to retire behind the Rhine. MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS UNPOPULAR. MEETING OF GERMAN TROOPS. LONDON, August 7. The whole German press is attacking Dr. Michaelis’ Ministerial appointments. The Liberal and Social Democratic papers regard the appointments as a challenge to parliamentary government, and accuse Dr. Michaelis of cowardice in deferring action until the Reichstag adjourned. The pan-Germans are angry, believing that the Minister Baron Kuehlinann favours a rapprochement with England. AMSTERDAM, August 8. Thirty thousand workers at Dortmund unanimously disapproved of the Reichstag’s peace resolution. An agitation is being organised against the resolution throughout the Empire. Herr Liebknecht is reported to be dying in a prison hospital. Frontier reports in the Telegraaf confirm the rumours of the mutiny of 300 German troops at Antwerp, who threw down their rifles when ordered to the Ypres front. They were quickly overpowered and taken to the barracks handcuffed. The Kaiser is visiting the west front. RIOTS IN POLAND. GERMAN WOMEN SENT HOME. (Received August 9, 11.10 a.m.) ROME.. August 8 ; Lausanne reports numerous riots in Poland. The Germans, fearing an organised revolt, have sent back all German women, including the wives of high officers. A TAME SOCIALIST. ALLOWED TO TALK A LITTLE. (Received August 9, 12.15 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 8. Herr Scheidemnnn, addressing 6000 at Mannheim, demanded, in the interests of peace, the speedy creation of a Government really representing the people’s will.