POLICY OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 122, 17 February 1919, Page 5

POLICY OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT

SUMMED UP BY lIERR SCHEIDEMANN UNITY OF STATE TO BE MAINTAINED By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright (Rec. February IC, 5.5 p.m.) Berne, February 13. Weimar advices state that in the Assembly Herr Scheidemaun, the Chancellor, in declaring the Government's policy, said. the task in the immediate future could be summed up under the following essential heads: (1) Maintenance of the unity of the State by means of a strong central authority; (2) the immediate conclusion of peace; (3) adherents to President Wilson's programme; (I) rejection of any peace of violence; (5) the restoration of Germany's colonics and territories; (6) immediate repatriation of German prisoners; (7) Germany to enter the League of Nations with equal rights; (8) general and reciprocal disarmament; (9) tho constitution of general arbitr.v i Hon courts; (10) abolition of secret diplomacy.— Heuter.

PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY. (Rec. February 17, 0.50 n.ni.) . Weimar, February 16. The Centre Party member, Dr. Fehrenbach, has been elected President of the Assembly—Renter.

GERMANY'S COLONIAL CLAIMS "NO WISH TO COMPETE WITH ENGLAND AND FRANCE." • (Reo. February IG, 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, February 13. Herr Eraberger, in an interview at Weimar, said that Germany's colonial claims were modest. She was content to retain as many colonies as Portugal. She had no wish' to compete with England and France in the colonial field. Germany was tired of contending against the Allies' hardened hearts. Freedom of the seas meant abolition of the right of blockade and the seizure of merchant ships. Aerial attacks ought to be prohibited in order to permit of the transport of vital necessaries—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

NO EVIDENCE OF STARVATION INVESTIGATIONS OF AMERICAN MISSION. (R«c. February 16, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 13. Members of the American Mission to Germany declare that they had not found evidence of starvation and want in the German cities, though the rural population was doubtlessly suffering from lack of food—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

GRAVE STRIKES THREATENED RIOTS IN BERLIN. ' tßec. February .16, 11.30 p.m.) Copenhagen, February 15. News has been received of grave strikes in Berlin.. Forty thousand workers are rioting, compelling the shopkeepers to close—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

RADEK ARRESTED TREATED AS A COMMON OUTLAW. (Rec. February 16, 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, February 13. Eadek, the Russian Bolshevik agitator, has been arrested—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Eec. February 10, 11.30 p.m.) Copenhagen, February 15. There is a strong guard at Mcabit prison, where Radek is imprisoned. He declares himself to be the Bolshevik Charge d'Affaires, and claims to be treatod as a diplomat, but the authorities insist that he is a common outlaw.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.