GERMAN FRONTIERS

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 64, 15 March 1919, Page 5

GERMAN FRONTIERS

FIXED NEXT WEEK.

; rtCEEASED TRADE FREEDOM. a fOVS. SEPARATE TREATIES. (Received 0 a.m.) PARIS, March 14. JL Andre Tardieu, one of the French Commissiurers, addressing the Allied journalists, said that the signajye of the preliminary peace terms tfould largely increase Germany's free- « oul to trade, 'although some reservaji ons would be imposed. He thought in fixing t ne preliminary terms the military authority and not the governments jjij come in touch with the Germans. It seemed probable that all the Gerjjjn frontiers would be settled before tke end of next week. It was not likely tlst Germany would be allowed to own or make any aeroplanes for a considerable time. •rbere would bo tour separate peace treaties with Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria, but an endeavour would be made to have them signed eonciirV rentlv. It Wlls impossible for the peace / treaty to be eigned before next ThursI j,t.-(A. and X.Z. Cable.)

jgStffE THE WEST BOTTNDARY.

B r KEFUBLIC ON LEFT. (Received 0.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 14. Ur Frank Sinioiids, correspondent of tie N.Y. 'Tribune,'" cables from Paris that the Allied plenipotentiaries have decided that the Rhine must form Germany's western frontier, while the old western boundary of Poland, existing before Poland was partitioned in 1772, will be Germany's eastern frontier. Germany will also lose the Danish-speaking population of Schleswig and the Polishspeaking population of Upper Silesia. France will gain Lorraine and the Saar coalfields. Germany will probably be allowed to join German Austria. A Bheniah republic will be created on the left bank of the Rhine.—(A. and ~S.Z.)

SPARTACIST MURDERS,

LOOTING SECTIONS OF BERLIIC AMSTERDAM. March 14. The Spartacists, after capturing the police headquarters in Berlin, murdered iO of the defenders. Only six escaped. Berlin messages state that the Spartaojte, driven to desperation by a losing fight, are now attacking civilians and Government forces alike. Spartacist plundering parties are robbing sections of the city.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) , A correspondent at Weimar writes: — fa the late.-t fighting the Spartacists trraed criminals, burglars, footpads, komicidal maniacs, and 100,000 army deserters, who were hiding in Berlin and ia 'the forests. When prisoners were taken they were compelled to climb into tarts in twenties, and were shot as they sere mounting them. The bodies were driven off. A female Spartacist shot 20 with her own hand.— (United Service.)

ALLIES" LAST WORD

05 THE SHIPPING QUESTION. (Received 0.15 a.m.) BRUSSELS, March 14. Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, British First Sea Lord, presented the Allies' decision to the flerman delegates with reference to turning over the German merchantmen in exchange for food.— (A. and NZ Cable.)

RIOTS IN BUDAPEST

BUDAPEST. March 14. The Communists attempted to seize Parliament House, the banks, and public luildiags. The Government troops drove ■them out of the city.— (Reuter.)