GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16093, 30 March 1918, Page 3

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.

DIFFICULTIES OF ADVANCE. BEGINNING TO BE REALISED. AMSTERDAM, 'March 28. German newspapers show a remarkable increasing unanimity as to tho growing difficulties ot the German advance. and warn tho public to expect slower results. Hiadouburg is said to remain confident. Berlin newspapers the Bulgarians are expected to largely reinforce the Germans in the. V\ est. PARIS. March 28. Le Temps’ Zurich correspondent quotes an influential personage as stating that the recent strikes in Berlin r.nd elsewhere were organised as a. protest against the projected offensive. The workers shrank from the sacrifice of life, and insisted that the offensive should be regarded as a means of peace and not another fruitless episode. It is also reported that there was a violent scene between the Kaiser and the headquarters staff, anil that General LudendortT spoke so violently that the Kaiser, pale with banged the table and cried: “Are you Emperor, or am 1?” Ludondorff replied; “I am only a soldier, and want peace, and 1 believe I can obtain it with this offensive.” The “personage” adds that the German food situation is not desperate, but the workers are ''disturbed by the conditions of the Russian peace, anticipating an influx of cheap labour from Lithuania, Courland and Poland.

RECRUITS FOP GERMAN ARMY. THE GAOLS TO BE EMPTIED. (Received March 30, 9.1 n a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 29. The German authorities have decided that all men of military age now in prison must join the army. GERMAN AMBASSADOR’S STATEMENTS. CAUSING GREAT IRRITATION. (Received March 30, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON. March 29. The revelations of Prince Lichnowsky, formerly Ambassador in London, are slowly leaking out in Germany and have aroused most intense anger, coupled with anxiety as to their effect on neutral opinion. The newspaper Germania announces that Prince Lichnowsky will be tried for violation of official secrets. N. ■ [Prince Lichnowsky’s indiscretion consists in his statement that Britain did not want war in 1914, and that Viscount Grey honestly did his best to prevent it.] MESSAGE FROM THE KAISER. IN PRAISE OF GERMAN MIGHT. (Received March 30, 5.50 a.m.) _ AMSTERDAM, March 29. The Kaiser, in a telegram to the Vice-President of the Reichstag, says: We have by God’s aid dealt a heavy blow' to the English military power. Many German people, and their Parliament particularly, draw the fullest confidence from the greatness of this accomplishment that the Gorman might may bring us peace hy force. Everything depends on the people at home preserving their will to victory. The coming world peace will he better secured by German might than hitherto. To this end may Goa help us. The Kaiser telegraphed to Knipps congratulating them on the new long range gun, adding: ‘‘lt is a new and glorious page in the history of the house, oi Krupp demonstrating the mastery of German science.”