CENTRAL POWERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16612, 22 August 1918, Page 5

CENTRAL POWERS.

FATE OF OCCUPIED RUSSIA, J Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. ! AMSTERDAM!, August 20. Tlie "Lokul Anzejger" states that it' has been decided that Courland, Liv-1 cnia, and EstJiouia shall be joined to j Prussia, under a Prussian Duke, probably one of, the Kaiser's sons. I/ithu- J ania is to become a kingdom under Duke TJinch, while Finland's king -will probably ho tho Duke Adolf Frederic of Meekieuiurg. Harr von Waerta declarers that- tho Polish question is still unsettled. GERMANY TO HELP TURKEY. pnd N. 55. Cnlita A*m. Riccircd 7.15 p.m., August 2tst. BER.NE, August 20. Germany has consented to make large new financial advances to Turkey. GERMAN WORKERS. TIRED OF THE WAR. ' BOLSHEVIK AGITATOR AT WORK. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. '• Recsived 1.20 a.m., August 5?2w7. LONDON, August 20. Tho Central News Hague correspondent states that discontent aicong tho German working class is seriously increasing. An agitator named Dresse ; a friend of the Bolshevik Joffe, : l as formed a workers' and soldiers' association. CONFIRMATION FROM ANOTHER SOURCE* . ROME, August 20. The "Giornalo di' Italia*' Bays that "defeatism" is progressing alarmingly in Germany. - The popularity of the iri'iitory i<?ols is disappearing. Tii< change for tho truculent spirit of last March is almost incredible.