GERMAN GOVERNMENT.

Evening Star, Issue 16912, 9 December 1918, Page 3

GERMAN GOVERNMENT.

EBERT HANGS ON. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS IN MAY. FIGHTING IN BERLIN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. AMisTKRDAM, December 6. German frontier report? state that there waa Bolshevist outbreak in Beilin and 1 serious street fighting. There aie no do- | tads. ' ! LONDON". December 7. There is no confirmation of tho report- of , a Bolshevist outbreak in Berlin (In tlie contrary, a Berlin message states that the Ebert Government have boon greatly strengthened by the adhesion of a number :of Guaids regiment- from the front. The | ex-Kaiser's sou Ada!belt lias telegraphed i to Herr Ebert placing himself at the Go- ■ vernmenfs disposal. ; COPENHAGEN, December 7. • A message from Berlin slates that at a. I | meeting of soldiers from the front it was j annoqniTd that- Hie Hxecutivc* Committee I iof tho Berlin Soviet had been arrested. A 1 profession was thereupon organised, and a ( demonstration was made Ik-fore the Chancellory, demanding a republic, making, Herr Ebert first president. Herr Ebert, asked if ho would agree to the proposal, replied that he must first confer with the Government. He denounced the arrest of the committee, and declared that tho Government were not responsible, and therefore ine committee must bo released i mined Lately. .Subsequently, the demonstrators not dispersing. soldiers turned on a machine gun. A general firing ensued, in which 16 were killed .and 15 wounded. Four thousand officers and non-commis-sioned officers resolved to establish a corps to uphold the Ebert Government. A mass meeting was held in tho Berlin suburbs, when Spartacnsian speakers declared that if a National -Assembly were summoned the military would immediately disperse it. AMSTERDAM, December 6. The German National Assembly elections will bo held on the 15th of May. LONDON. December 6. Violent fighting occurred at Essen when returned soldiers attempted to lower the red Hag, and several persons were killed. DAUM IC’S ASCENT. LONDON, December 6. An English correspondent in Berlin says that the real government of Germany is in the hands of a National Council elected by district councils of the Workmen and Soldiers, in which every regiment is now represented. The most powerful man in Germany is Ernest Daumig, President of tiio National Council, formerly on the ‘ Vorwarts ’ staff and recently secretary of the Independent Socialists. Herr Daumig declares that all persons associated with the old regime must go. BAVARIA’S POLICY. , AMSTERDAM, December 6. An official despatch from Munich states that the Bavarian Premier has telegraphed fch-© Berlin Government stating that the Bavarian Cabinet are unanimously of opinion that a conference of representatives of the German Governments should bo summoned immediately to agree upon a programme of home and foreign policies. The points for discussion should indispensably include the questions of a National Assembly, a Foreign Ministry, and the publication of documents,

COPENHAGEN, December 6. A telegram from Berlin states that Herr Eisner, Bavarian Premier, in announcing the forthcoming publication of a series of German Foreign Office documents, declares that the marginal notes reveal the ox-Kaiser’a personal responsibility for the war.

The elections for tho Bavarian Diet wall be held on the 12th January. All male and female subjects over 20 years of age will bo allowed to vote. Any _ male or female Bavarian, aged at least 25, can bo elected. THE FAMINE CRY. COPENHAGEN, December 6. A Gorman official Note_ states that Germany is verging on famine. Tho bread ration will not "exceed 80 grammes daily after mid-February. Tho Austrian situation is even graver. Vienna is without coal, and railways and street lighting will shortly ceascy The food supplies will not last beyond 51st December.