GERMANY.

Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

DRIFT TO BOLSHEVISM.

CONNECTION WITH RUSSIA.

Ptcss Amoeiatian—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and K.Z. Cable Association.

■. , LONDON*. March 6. Official advices from Germanv show that Oie situation is serious. The Scheidemann Government aro shakv, owing to the lack of support -within and outside the Chamber, the Government are obliged to rely on Herr Nbcko's troops There is every Kkclihood of the anarchist forces, which are- -widespread, using Munich as a centre. A small band of Bolsheviks control the eituation in Bavaria with the aid of armed Jnobs of demobilise!! soldiers, sailors, ami koolieans. _ The Bolsheviks have established a reign of terror, and openlv profess 'Russian Bolshevism. Thus, for "the first time, a purely Bolshevik Government is inaugurated in Germany, controlled by Jkissians in touch with Moscow. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. WTLSON-S FAREWELL SPEECH. TAFT SUPPORTS HIM. NEW YORK. March 5. President Wilson, in a- speech at New TTork before leaving for Franco, said : "The presence of Mr Taft shows that tha League of Nations is not a partisan issue, j and no party dare long oppose it. We ars trustees, and the assets to be dealt with are tho countries we have liberated. ' We must not shirk our responsibilities. Vision is necessary for reform, wh>ih will not come from statesmen but from the. people. I am amazed at the comprehensive ignorance of the opponents of the scheme. No nation.least of ail America, has the right to set up selfish interests against the interests of mankind. [Many new-horn nations will fail into black despair : f America fails them. Critics of the scheme are impelled by the doctrine of careful selfishness. When the treaty of p'.-ire is concluded the> League covenant will be <> intertwined with the treaty that they will be inseparable. The League is a combination of all nations against wrongdoers." Mr Taft, in the course of his speech, insisted that the League of Nations was an eseential preliminary to f'-e tbia! declaration of peace, because new States with conflicting interests required the League as an establishing authority. Th»- League was also necessary to prevent Bolshevism. America's doctrine wn-s not so much again-t, alliances as against bavin.; favorites among nations. If America failed to participate in the reeonstnicti'ei of Fim-po she would be a slacker among nations. HISTORIC YPRES, PARIS. March 6. The Press Bureau state? that the Ypres Municipal Council have protet-ted aszainst the Belgian Government's decision not to allow a pres to be rebuilt on the old site. BOLSHEVIK ATROCSTIES. LONDON. March 6. la the House of Commons Mr Cecil Harmsworth said that though the precise figures were unobtainable, it was true the Bolsheviks had murdered a great number of men. women, and children, employing a considerable force of Chinese executioners.