HANDS OFF BAVARIA.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 52, 1 March 1919, Page 5

HANDS OFF BAVARIA.

A WARNING TO WEIMAR. SOLDIERS' COUWCH RETAINS POWER. ULTIMATUM FROM ARMY (Received 10.25 a.m.) GENEVA, February 28. | Trie Munich newspapers warn the I Central Government at Weimar to keep its hands off Bavaria. The Workers and ; Soldiers' Council decided to retain powui ; until the new constitution is settled. It! is reported that the commander of the | Second and Third Army Corps at Wurz-' burg sent an ultimatum to the .Munich ' Workers and Soldiers' Council.-(A. and; N.Z. table.) BOLSHEVISM IN SAXONY. SOVIET REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED BERLIN, February 28. A Soviet republic has been proclaimed throughout Saxony. The railways have been halted by a general strike at Leipsic.— (Reuter.) THE MUNICH: MURDERS. ALL MINISTERS FIRED AT. COPENHAGEN, February 28. According to reports from .Munich it is still uncertain how many Ministers and deputies were killed in the shooting in the Chamber of Deputies. Some telegrams indicate that the attack was vengeance for Herr Eisner's assassination, but this is only supported by the fact of Rosshaupter's arrest by the Spartacists. Mystery surrounds the identity and fate of the man. who after firing the shot | which killed Herr Aver, Minister for i Home Affairs, leapt into the Chamber and ! opened tire, along the Ministerial benches. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) LONDON, February 28. The Berlin correspondent of the "Times" states that Herr Eisner was often threatened with assassination. . His wife told a friend that he thought his temporary rulership so splendid that he was content to ignore the danger. Eisner told a friend that his late bitter attack upon Germany's war policy was his death warrant.— ('"Times.") DRAFTING THE CONSTITUTION. PRUSSIA LEFT UNDIVIDED. STATE TO CONTINUE. NEW YORK, February 28. A Berlin message states that the draft of the new (Jerman Constitution, which will be submitted to the National Assembly, embraces the existing constituent States and continues the present constitutional system without barring the way to developments towards a centralised Government. Prussia remains undivided, but is restricted to one-third of its old representation in the new Reichstag. The southern States are restricted as to treaty-making rights.— (A. and N.Z.) COMMUNAL COUNCILS. FOCH FORBIDS NEW ELECTION. PARIS, February 28. The German Government has ordered the dissolution of the communal councils and their re-election on a popular vote. As this is calculated to cause great changes in the administration of the occupied territories, the Belgian military authorities have demanded the mainI tenance of the existing organisations. Marshal Foch shares the Belgian view, and therefore forbade the elections. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)