GERMAN DISORDERS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 154, 30 June 1919, Page 7

GERMAN DISORDERS.

POSITION LESS ACUTE. STUKE IN BERLIN SETTLED. 7OWERS OP WORKMEN'S ■COUNCILS. *ByC a ble.-I> ress COPENHAGEN, June " 9 Tie Workmen's Council at Hamburg Javng undertaken to maintain order the £ro<ps have been withdrawn T.e, strike in Berlin has been settled. The Workmen's Councils in the railway Mrice have been allowed to continue tenporanly, and cheaper food has been pranised. 1 decree issued by Herr Noeke, Minister for Defence, forbidding the railway Btrke, incensed the leaders of the worken who decided to stop food trains. Otier strikes are threatened. A thouM»d Communist agitators have been arested. There is great nervousness, a revolutin being feared. Soldiers suppressed dfturbances in the northern suburbs of Brlin. Two persons were killed. Martial law has been proclaimed at Fankfort. An order was given to the toops to clear the streets, and seven pople were killed in carrying it out. Hr.rr Noske has issued a proclamation tireatening the rigorous repression of dsorders emanating from a well-pre-jared political plot intended to .envelope <he empire. According to Berlin advices, Colonel *on Lettow-Vorbeck, former commander of the forces in East Africa, is preparing j. coup for the restoration of the monkrchy. He is forming two armies to attack Berlin and Poland simultaneously \A. and X.Z. Cable.)