REFORM IN GERMANY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16408, 31 December 1918, Page 7

REFORM IN GERMANY.

RESTITUTION TO RUSSIA AND

FRANCE.

BOLSHEVIK HORRORS.

THE REVOLUTION IN

GERMANY. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE GOVERNMENT. (By Cable. —Press Association.— Copyright.) (Reuters COPENHAGEN, Decembor 27. The Workmen and Soldiers' Central Council at Berlin has been summonod to meet with a view to reconstnictin„ tho Government. It iS i believed that it is intended to include Herr Ledebour and Dr. Ivarl Liebknecht. TEE FOOD SUPPLIES. MR HOOVER'S CANDID MESSAGE. WASHINGTON, 27. Mr Hoover's message to the Director of* tho Belgian Relief Commission regarding Baron fonder Lancken s and Dr Rieth's requests for a conference, said: J'You can do-.cribo two and a halt ■years' arrogance towards ourselves and cruelty towards the Belgians in any language you choose. . Toll the pair personally to go to hell, with my compliments. If we do have to deal with Germans, it won't he with that pair. A previous cablo message stated that Baron von dor Lancken and Dr. Rieth had been appointed by the German Government to negotiate with Mr Hoover regarding food supplies. LUDENDORFF'S FLIGHT. (Renter's Telegrams.) COPENHAGEN, December 29. Russian refugees at Stockholm assert that Ludenaorlf tied to Russia and interviewed Lenin. They presume that he has assumed the command of the Soviet army. THE RIOTING IN BERLIN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTIiRDAM, December 2U. The most serious episode of the Christmas rioting was the arrest of Ebert and his colleagues. They were held captive in tbeir own offices, and haggled over the marines' terms, but finally accepted them. The Government's position was further wearcenod when the Guards sought to overpower the marines, but Ebert, hearing of the coup d'otat_, intervened, and requested the troops to return to Potsdam. The whole affair was a victory for the sailors and a defeat for the Government, -whose loss of prestige is so "great that a Cabinet crisis is inevitable.