ERZEBERGER'S MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 205, 29 August 1921, Page 5

ERZEBERGER'S MURDER.

PORTENT OF COMING STORM. NEW REVOLUTION PREDICTED. (Received 0.00 a.m.) LONDON, August 28. Erzeberger's murder has caused consternation in Germany. The Press regards it as a. portent of the coming storm, and the first sign of the seething unrest beneath the surfact. They are agreed that the crime is the outcome of political animosity and the dangerous recklessness of the Extreme Right party, which bitterly hates and blames the oxMinister for the taxation schemes of the Wirth Government The '"Morgenpost" states that the murder was planned by half-a-dozen men of high standing—titled persons and rich industrialists—acting with a small group which is undermining Germany. The Socialist organs angTily predict a new revolution with serious and sanguinary fighting. They denounce the hangmen's assistants of the world war, who they assert are systematically murdering the leaders of the- Left party. The "Observer's" Berlin correspondent says that Erzeberger's enemies are already alarmed by the impression the murder has created, as shown by workers' demonstrations in Berlin and Munich, which the troops quelled, one of the Munich demonstrators being killed.— (United Service.) TWO ARRESTS MADE. CHAUVINIST AGITATION. (Tteceired 2.30 p.m.) BERLIN, August 28. Two students have been arrested on suspicion of murdering Erzeberger. The Labour organisations and political parties are strongly urging the Government to end the Chauvinist agitation to which the murder is attributed. The Government has forbidden a festival at Potsdam arranged by the pan-Germans to celebrate the German victory at Tannenberg over the Russians.— (Reuter.)