The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-17
twenty-five Year Treaty Be-
tween Austro Hungary and
Germany Reported Agreed On
When Monarchs Held Confer
= ence
MILITARY REGULATIONS =
!, TO Be MORE STRINGENT
Teutons Go Ahead With Their,
Plans For World Power Even
.lt Weaker Nations May Be
Forced To Resume Warfare

IWyASHINGTON May 10
w ASSOCIATED Press)--More
stringent military regulation on
both sides and economic relations
which are looked upon to bring
closer the realization Of the Nit
ltel-Europa idea, hare been agreed
upon by the Germany Kaiser and
the Emperor Of tttistro- Hungary.
liz is Said in Swiss dispatches
which were received yesterday.
Berlin newspapers which have
| Preached Switzerland are said to
indicate that the terms Of a new
treaty between Germany and
/ Austria have been agreed upon
10y. the two einperors to cover a
period of twenty-five years. Wen
ma adyiccs to the same source say
that as yet the agreement has not
been signed
! Differing reports of the recent con
ference between the two emPerors,
London reports said that dispatches
from Europe say that the Cor.
man papers are declaring that the
meeting of the kaiser and Emperor
1 Charles of Austria at the German
tgrand headquarters was for the pur-
1 pose of selecting rulers for Lithuania,
COurland, .Esthonia and Poland. 1t is
asserted that this selection has been
u matIe7' FtH4 ait8 n - rEE1a-s s.. r-..
i Exchange Congratulations ss7 y <
X knIsterdain tod 81 the exchange of
i congratuTatory messages between Kar.
los and Wilhelm, its message quoting
KarIos as telegraphing to the kaiser
his satisfaction as to the results of
the conference to which the latter re-
Piled: .s IL.
!, "aWith great joy, we have again
established in detailed discussions our
entire accord regarding the aims which
..nie us.'
, The ,ukranians are reported from
Moscow to have arranged. an armistice
with the Russians and with the Ger
mails rs we'll OH the 'kursk front
l.. tHUuRuE EOlHE wa" s-'fAtfN'
e Europe plans Germany is not finding
t Fprugrass in Russia so easy ami the
g completion of the northerly end OF, the
e project is far from accomplished. Rus
;. STA ~ In poor position 70 resist the
demands which the Teutons are making
!. upon the BolshcViEi government but
l. there are to be sedA Indications that
!, the Slavs may yet put up a consider
q ! MA ukOu NJ rasista
I Moscow reported that the soviet
= tro0Iis Operating lin, the vicinity of
t R6stovondou had driven out the
/. German troops 'garrisnneA in the virin
ity while Amsterdam dispatches said
# that in certain circles in Berlin it Il
3, forescen that the Russians may uni;e
d to resist German demands,
IS Cotfes of the Vossiche Zeitun2
1t contain the statement that the declara
5 ton Of war proclaimed in Ekate1n"s
< Law, Odessa, and Pnltava is observable
ID as L." strong c6urt'ircurreut TO the
ID nresept order Of things" on the cast
" Russis's. Troubles
- Meantime, Russia has it's interna
"a problems thoroughly complicated. Har
"a bin dispatches OF yesterday said tina
ir Seminoff, the anti BolsheVist, nad cap
"A turedi Kafimskaya, a railfoad junction
10 and that engineers had .been' sent i,
=, him to restore the railroad, near whicI
re the Bulsheviki we're then Ia retreat
Whole districts Of Siberia were saic
to be starving bechuse of the lack o
transportation. \ ~
Russia is paying the price for tn
- collapse of the government, Less tina
half Of the tillable land Of EuroPea
|, Russia, remaining in control of tn
MI Bolsleviki, viii Be ctiltISHted this yC =.
IN There is general unrest among tn
- peasants. and the conditions are s
unsettled that land distribution il dir
h. organized. Thcre is a grave shortag
he of seed. thorses and implements. all "
", which add to the unrest among III
~ neasant classes. " ~.