DISORDER IN HUNLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5136, 31 March 1919, Page 5

DISORDER IN HUNLAND.

recurrence of spartacist RIOTS.

GLOOAIY FORECAST

GOVERNAIENT AVILL NOT LAST LONG.

HUNGARIAN AIOVEMENT PREARRANGED IN BERLIN.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Ala„y 29, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, Alarch 26, Spartacist disorders have recurred in the Essen area. A mob at A) itten endeavored to storm tlie Volks-Zei-tung officers, but a cordon of ponce barred entry to the building. Bombs were freely thrown and eleven were killed and thirty-seven wounded. Aimers in Dortmund and the neighboring districts are rioting owing to food shortage. ■ The Daily Chronicle’s Copenhagen correspondent states that the German Government will perhaps remain m office long enough to sign peace, especially as nobody is anxious to bear the odium of accepting a dictated peace. Competent observers predict that the Government will not last long after. Nobody is interested in discussions at AVeimar. Intense propaganda on behalf of Royalist restoration is progressing. Monarchism is growing and is accelerated by an appeal against signing the Peace treaty and breaking _up the Fatherland’s unity and integrity. Spartacists may also derive strength from re-awakened nationalism similar to Hungary, where people followed the revolutionary leaders into an alliance with the Bolsheviks rather than have their country occupied by foreign troops. The Hungarian and Bulgar movements are interpreted in some circles as part of a concerted plan, long prearranged in Berlin to ripen on the eve of the presentation of the Peace terms.

Tlie originators counted on the Entente nations mutually quarrelling, and . latterly hoped that the Bolshevist manifestations would bo taken as a serious menace, inducing ultimately U&sier terms. Daylight robberies under arms are occurring frequently in Berlin. Two robbers wearing Iron Crosses entered a food office, covered the clerks with revolvers, and stole nearly 10,000 bread, meat, sugar, and coffee cardsThere are similar robberies of jewstocks.

KIEL CANAL INTERNATIONALISED.

TROOPS ON BOTH SIDES

(Received Alarch 30. 12.10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 29. The British Ambassador announces that it has been decided to internationalise the Kiel Canal. Troops will occupy both sides.