CENTRAL POWERS.
UNITED CZECHO-SLOVAKS NATION. MANIFESTO ISSUED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, August 20. A manifesto issued by the Czechoslovak National Council at. Prague outlines the programme for . the union of the Czecho-Slbviiks intd one na.tion. It declares that Bohemia shall rise again from the grave and take her. place amongst the free lands. Czech newspapers counsel patience, as the German machine guns are ready to suppress, the Bohemian independence movement. PETROLEUM TRAIN EXPLODED. - BERNE, August 20. An entire petroleum train exploded on Thursday at the station at Erlan in Hungary, causing immense damage. Tho telegraph and telephone communication ' between Budapest and - northern Hungary is interrupted. * AUStiilA AND GERMANY. PIJ-FICULTIES OF AGREEiMENT AMSTERDAM, August 20. German ancl Austrian netvspapers nro voir riheast", arid doiibt whether ithy i eitl agreenlentJ was reached r.t" the rceenb conference at German Head quUtters Vienna newspapers indicate ibat Aus tria. has not yet submitted to German-? her and the Germans are trying to drive a. hard bargain, -wn.civ tli c Government hesitates to accept'."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16612, 22 August 1918, Page 7
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170CENTRAL POWERS. Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16612, 22 August 1918, Page 7
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