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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16037, 23 January 1918, Page 2

We Jiave'heard so much of strikes and food riAts in Germany, which hare apparently had. no serious effect on tho resolution of the people to continue the war, that wc hesitate to accept tho reports of strikes in Austria as indicating any possibility of Austria abandoning her ally. At the same time it must be admitted that the cablegrams appear to indicate far more widespread trouble than has ever occurred in Germany. The Austrian and Hungarian strikes, moreover, are not solely inspired by impatience at the scarcity and dearness of food, but are a form of political agitation against the despotieforpi of govern/-