CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16364, 8 November 1918, Page 8

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

BAVARIANS FEAR INVASION. MUTINY AT KIEL. EIGHT "DEMONSTRATORS' ! KILLED. JJy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.i.. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, November 6. The "Cologne Gazette" states that soldiers, Bailors, and workmen at Kiel formed a procession on Sunday. They fieized firearms and demanded tho release of sailors imprisoned for mutiny. Tho demonstrators refused to disband, and troops fired on them, killing eight and wounding thirty. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received November 7th, 8.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Novombor 6. The mutiny at Kiel is most serious. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Council dominate the town. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Hecoived November 7th, 8.25 p.m.) LONDON. November 6. The r 'Daily News" Rotterdam correspondent says: A leading feature of tho latest German newspapers' outcry against the snggested secession of tli9 Southern States is tho notable feeling of anxiety in Bavaria, whore the people fear invasion. Some newspapers demand the recall of the Bavarian divisions from the Wef-t front for the defenco of the southern frontier. It is reported from Rome that Germany is concentrating troops on tho Bavarian frontier. j

MUTTERINGB OF REVOLUTION. ("Tho Time*.") LONDON, November 6. Reports have been received of increasing dissensions and mutterings of revolution and popular disorders in Germany. Simultaneously inspired newspaper assertions appear of the country's determination not to accept terms similar to Austria'*, which the War Cabinet fully considered. Orders have been given to call up more men, causing great irritation. Forty thousand have been drafted from Krupp's alone. All the munition factories remain busy. The workers' wages have been raised. Military circles profess to believe that the chances of invasion aro still remote. Krupp's newspaper says that, all things considered, the militury situation is good. General von Grodal, Germany's delegate to The Hague Conference, and Herr von Hintze, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, have been appointed to assist von VinLerfield's negotiations. A BIG EXPLOSION. AMSTERDAM, November 6. A coirespondent at Bremen reports that an explosion totally destroyed the i Spandau artillery -works. -Tho em* ployees had previously left. The authorities are stringently suppressing demonstrations at Essen. REVOLUTION INEVITABLE. AMSTERDAM, November 6. A Hague correspondent says: A wellinformed Dutch authority, who has returned from states that a revolution is coming, and it is impossible to prevent it. It will be either the outcome of a collapse similar to' Austria's or a previous attempt to secure a military coup d'etat. The

Government is only n pioco of st;iyo property, and is bound to fall. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT GROWING. (Australian And N.Z. Cable X radiation.) (Received November 7th, 10 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, November G. The revolutionary movement in Germany is growing hourly. Riots of a more or less grave- nature are reported in different cities. "Vorwaert's" characterises the situju tipn as exceedingly critical. REVOLUTIONARIES PLUNDERING SHIPS. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received November 7th, 10 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. 'Hamburg reports state that the revolutionaries hav£ seined Kiel and aro slundering the ships, j.ne battleship Koeria has been dressed in red dags. The officers were overpowered, and the infantry sent to suppress the disorder joined the mutineers.