GERMAN EDITOR'S CRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 5

GERMAN EDITOR'S CRIME.

'. PREVENTION OF ENLISTMENT. [ THREE MONTHS' GAOL. . BERLIN, December 25. The Magdeburg Court sentenced to three months' imprisonment Herr Rot- ! hedrt. editor of a provincial newspaper, ; for libelling President Ebert, who he ) accused of helping to prolong the muni- • tion workers' strike in 1018, and publicly ) urging the workers not to respiind to • the military order to join the army.— I (A. and N.Z. Cable.) ALLIED GERMAN CONTROL. THE FIVE POINTS. PARIS, December 25. Advices from Berlin state that the ; Inter-Allied Military Control Commis--1 sion forwared to Paris a further fort--1 nightly report stating that Germany - had not fulfilled any of the five pointa t laid down at the Ambassadors' Con--3 ference regarding disarmament.— (A. , and N.Z.) The five points in the Ambassadors' 1. That breaches of the Treaty of Versailles by the Germans would compel steps towards instant compliance. 2. Reorganisation of the police force so that it is a civil and not a military . arm. 3. Munition factories to be transformed and made incapable of making . lethal ware. 4. Documents showing the difference between war material at the beginning and end of the war in comparison with r those held, and to be available to the ■ Allies. J 5. The prohibition of recruiting for 5 units capable of waging war.