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DISTURBANCES IN HAMBURG. , Fill il) lilt ITS AND PEACE DEMON- ) STRATIONS. ' Received August 24, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, August 24. Tin- Daily chronicle's correspondent at Amsterdam stairs Unit for a week past Hamburg lias boon in a state of semi-revolution, tin.' exasperated population breaking out in hunger riots and peace demonstrations. The police were unable, or perliaps unwilling, to quell the disturbances, and before the soldiers arrived the angry crowds forced their way along the principal streets, smashing windows. Vigorous military measures restored order.
FUTURE OF POLAND. GERMAN DOMINATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS, August 213. The Geneva correspondent of the newspaper Le Journal affirms that, owing to her recent disastrous defeats, Austria has renounced her pretensions to Poland, which falls to Germany. The latter proposes to annex the province of Suwalki, and the remainder will be incorporated in a new Polish kingdom, of which probably Prince Leopold of Bavaria will be king. A military convention is proposed to give Germany absolute power over the Government of Poland, while a commercial treaty will subordinate Polish interests to those of Germany.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13268, 25 August 1916, Page 5
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