GERMANY AND REVENGE.

Evening Star, Issue 17085, 2 July 1919, Page 3

GERMANY AND REVENGE.

GOVERNMENT’S SOOTHING PROCLAMATION. BITTER FEELING VENTED. HINDENBURG STILL AN “EAST FRONTED.” Press Association —By Telegraph*—Ctopyri^hfe. Telegrams: BERLIN, Juno 26 (delayed). The Bauer Government have a proclamation, to the German people stating that the first requirement is falfflment of the treaty j tho second, work; and the third, faithfulness to duty. The only way out of the darkness of this treaty is through the preservation of the Empire and nation by unity and work. Australian • and-N.Z. Cable -Association. LONDON, June 30. Herron Muller and Bell, the German plenipotentiaries who signed the Peace Treatv, invited their three Entente escorting officers to luncheon at the tram. Reuter’* Telegrams. BERLIN June 26 (delayed). Von Hfndenburg, replying to a request by the Minister of Defence (Herr Noske) for a art-atenpexit of his attitude iu view of the Entente's rejection of the German reservation, said that if hostilities were resumed the Germans would be able to ronquer the province of Posen and mamtain their frontiers In the *ast, but could hardlv reckon upon success in tho west. A favorable issue, therefore, was very doubtful; but as a soldier he- would prefer an honorable fall to an ignominious pence. Juno 29. Herr Helfforich, ex-Treasurer, interviewed, declared that Herr Erzbergsr had done more harm to Germany than Mr Wilson, M. demenccau, and Mr Lloyd Georgs combined. The Germans must prepare for the day of revenge and resurrection. Tho ocming" generation would again, raise up the nation. COPENHAGEN, June 29. _ Several German Conservative journals appeared in black borders, and bitterly attacked the Entente and German Majority par ties. The treatv is described as dictated bv Satanic hate. The papers add that Germans must teach their children retribution and revenge before they learn to say “mother” and ” father.” They must rid the country of traitors —namely, tho leaders of tho Democrats and tha Centre party. EX-KAISER AND HULL AND. LONDON, June 30. In the House of Commons! too Parliamentary Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs* (Mr Harms-worth) stated that there had not been any negotiations hitherto for the ex-Kaiser’s extradition. The Allies had urged Holland not to allow the exKaiser to ©scape. Mr Bottomley reminded the House that Wilhelm Hohenzollern had threatened to commit suicide, and asked if tho Government would do their best to expedite this inexpensive solution. (Laughter.) IN COLOGNE. BRITISH ALLOWED TO FRATERNISE. LONDON, June 30. The ‘Daily Telegraph's’ Cologne coire-e-pondent states: After salvoes on Saturday small parties of Britisn soldiers travelled the streets singing. Sir William Robertson has cancelled tho orders prohibiting fraternisation with the Germans. On doing so he; paid he trusted the soldiers’ good sense concerning their relations with the population. The people of Cologne were interested spectators of the British demonstrations.