The European War.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 769, 22 December 1917, Page 1

The European War.

, _ —-» . LAST NIGHT’S NEWS. Per Preeo AcsoCiation—Copyright. RUSSIA. I WAR WITH UKRAINE. %. ti .J. ,mmm Australian and N.Z* Cable Assn, ' PETROGRAD, yesterday. The Bolshoviki at Kiel! liavei (k----clai’ecl against the Ukrainians. The Ministry of Marino has ■ nationalised. Vh'e Nikolai:;ff shipbuilding works, valued at several million sterling. Workmen arrested llk management. • ■ The Bolslioviki seized twenty-five million roubles from” banks at Nish,ni Novgorod. ■ ■ “LIGHTNING CHANGE--LENIN A Australian and NZ. Cable Assn, I / BERNE, yesterday. Lenin has reached Switzerland. I - r "" J ;; i italy, ■ GERMAN REPORT. (Admiralty, per Wireless). LONDON, yesterday. A German official report states;— We repulsed ideated conmeiviitacks against ■oo.r newly-won . lines at Monte Pertica. Prisoners taken between the Bionto and Piave since December 11 number 270 officers and 8150 men. GERMAN PLOTTING. INTRIGUES IN THE ARGENTINE (Reuter's Telegrams). WASHINGTON, yesterday. Great sums of German money are being spent in subsidising Argentine newspapers, and a high'power radio at Buenos Aires by which the 'Teutons ,'secretly communicated with Berlin is revealed. A series of communications ’intercepted betwepn Count Luxburg and Germany r n;nniagi to; forty -telegrams and Jcoustitutingi another chapter of the intrigues of German diplomacy, is (being published simultaneously by the Argentine Government and American State Department. One message reveals that Luxburg induced {the of 'Argentina to (seek a secret agreement with Chill land ‘ Bolivia! for a mutual apprecheraent for protection against North America.

THE FOOD PROBLEM. BRITAIN’S WINTER OUTLOOK. mmM Li > Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn LONDON, yesterday' Mr Lloyd Georige addressed a f ull House ion the' -naval and military situation. fie first touched on Bin food problem which .he. said, two circumstances aggravated: First, the failure ,to g'et hotter and margarine from Denmark and Holland; and second, Ithrough the Allied food shortage (being ’ greater I Iran was anticipated. Britain' was therefore compelled ito sacrifice 7 some of her own resources in order to supply her Allies. - The Responsibility rosjed on [those possessing, stocks of tea-, margarine and butter to ensure a fair distribution. The people " rid not mind a shortage so much as a suspicion ‘tjmt others were getting more than their share. He hoped it would he unnecessary to control the large multiple stomp. If they look steps to secure an equal distribution there would be no noted for queues ? apd the discontent which they created. Mr Lloyd George continuing, said that the, food position was. steadily improving'. Although’ we were unable tor obtain adequate labour and steel for shipbuilding*, this was being remedied. 'The l construction was year 1913 ; Since, June the shipping losses; had decreased steadily, and, opr margin of-loss was now, narrqws The -International Peace* Copgress 'mhst settle [he.'fafe />f the German 'colonies, haying regard'.to the ■wishes of[ the inhabitants them-, pelves ri 1 [ r/t -' [,. -n * ... i l

GERMANY* v 1 .•■■■■ ’ CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES RE- ; DUCED. : ; , ■' k Australian and Cable Assn,. AMSTERDAM, yesterday The Kaiser announces -that Christmas 'festivities wPI he cut down to the minimum in view of the |ser-, ious times, i L! PEACE TALK. AN INTERESTING INVENTION. Australian and N*Z Cable Assn, j and Reuter. ■ WASHINGTON, yesterday. . What purports to be an outline, of ithe Kaiser’s Christmas peace terms has been received ! through neutral .diplomatic channels as follows.:— Leave Alsace to! a,(plebiscite. Britain to pay Germany for her lost'African colonies, and the money to be used for the rehabilitation of Belgium, Serbia, Roumania and Northern Franco. Russian provinces bordering on the Baltic to 1 become independent , under a 'German plan. Poland to be! called an indepc*r dent state under Austrian suzerainty. ; Questions of disarmament* fr dom of the seas, and .commerce, to be left to the peace conference. i Roumania Serbia and Mont’negro to retain their original hoimclaries with the right of access to tho sea granted to Serbia. Turkey to remain intact.

AUSTRALIA. CONSCRIPTION DEFEATED. PROBABILITY OF FEDERAI. ELECTION. SYDNEY, yesterday. The '‘No" leadVsteadily inemi- ‘s, The totals now stand: “No’’ Shi, • 397, “Yes” 697,819; majority 4(3,578. The total voles on the r ill

•?,772, r jß3. While it is generally accepted that there is very JiiJle hope ;of the present position being reversed, the figures are not accepted as final. It is roughly estima.ed that ,300,000 soldiers’ absentee votes arc istill uncounted, whereupon a big proportion of “Yes” - ’voles is expected. Assuming ’that the n; inforcements proposal is' definitely defeated. speculation on the Government's [next move is already rife, although it is highly improbable that ,the Ministry will take uc l on until after the holidays. There is a probability of a Federal election, hut neither Mb Hughes or his Ministers are prepared, to mate any, comments.