CENTRAL-POWERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 16080, 29 September 1916, Page 8

CENTRAL-POWERS

REICHSTAG. TO MEET. ■ STORMY- SESSION PREDICTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) • LONDON,- Sept 27. The Berlin correspondent of the United Press states that the stormiest session of the Reichstag since the beginning of the Avar is foreshadowed -by members who are arriving for to-mor-row's opening of the session. Dr. Coerting, an industrial loader from Hanover, will move a'vote of noconfidence in Dr. von Bethmann-Holl-weg, the Chancellor. The absence of the Socialist Dr. Liebkneeht, who was recently, arrested, .will not contribute towards calming the session." -■'- ■ ' , Herr von Bcthmann-Hollweg will ad-: dress -the Reichstag- at' 3 p.m. ■ The voting of war credits and the main ■ features of the "policy towards England will be the chief topics for a three u-eoks" session. • - > The- Conservatives profess to be highly pleasod with the results of the recent zeppelin raids,. and intend to demand a more severe. ■ anti-English .campaign. " '<

ELEVENTH HOUR BARGAIN. SUPPORT. FOE,, CHANCELLOR. BERNE, Sept. 27. A. Berlin message states that an eleventh hour bargain'has been struck between Dr. von Betnmann-Holhveg "and rho Socialists who will jointly oppose the - Junkers and the .von Tirpitz party.

CALLING UP UNFIT

STRAIN REACHING BREAKING POINT. ROTTERDAM, Sept. 27. Germany Jias called up all the unfit men of the 1890-1895 classes, also the 1898 class for re-examination. ) The strain on the German man power is reaching breaking point. Railway men liable for service have bcon ordered to be in readiness to join the colours. A large force of civilians, is engaged on 1 the Belgian-Zealand frontier in cutting down trees and constructing trenches.

GRIEF FOR A COLONY. BASLE, Sept. 227. The "Kolnischo Zeitung" in an inspired article prepai-ing. the public for the loss of East Africa, says:— "The German heroes will soon be powerless. Germany feels cruelly the loss of her last and finest colony, which was full of promise so far as mining and the cotton industry arc concerned."