CENTRAL POWERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16478, 25 February 1918, Page 11

CENTRAL POWERS

A TTRPITZ SPEECH. STRUGGLE OF ENDURANCE. Australian and N-Z. Cable Assn. Received 0.0 p.m., »Feb. 24th, AMSTERDAM, Feb. 22. Addressing a meeting of the Fatherland Pariy Admiral von Tirpitz declared that they must show superiority in tenacity. The Western Posrers constituted the greatest danger. Unfortunately intensive submarinism had been so long delayed that the enemy's counter-measures were impeding its speedy effect. Germany, however, would hold out longer than England. He added that Belgium remained the pivot of the war.

AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS WANT PEACE. A Vienna message states that the Reichstrath Socialists will urgently interpellate in the Chamber on the 27th, and aro arranging for mass meetings for a continuation of negotiations between Vienna and Washington.

KAISER'S APPEAL. "LAST GREAT FIGHT." Replying to a congratulatory message from the Agricultural Leagao, the Kaiser «xhorted his people to clo«e their heme ranks for the last great fight. GERMAN RECRUITS MUTINY. . German recruits at Beverloo camp, informed that they were going to the front and ordered to sing -th© "Watch on the Rhine," refused. An officer drew Ins sword to a recruit whose com. rades shot the officer. All suspects were court-martialed and shot - the some day.

MUTINY IN AUSTRIAN NAVY. NEW YORK, Feb. 22. The "World'a" Rome correspondent states that Slavs who escaped from Cattnro report that the Austrian, fleet at Catjtaro mutinied and disaffection spread to Polo, Fiume, and Austrian ports. Discontent throughout Austria is reaching the proportions of incipient .revolt, due' to the Bolsheyiki's propaganda. CENTRAL POWERS' CWNFEKENGK Received 12.5(f a.m-, Feb. 25th. BERNE, Feb. 24. The Emperor Charles arrived at German Headquarters and conferred with the Kaiser, Hindenburg, Ludenorff and Von Hertling. *