GERMANY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 270, 31 October 1916, Page 5

GERMANY.

"PREVENTIVE” ARRESTS.

ANGRY SCENES IN THE REICHSTAG. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] (Received 31, 11.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, Oct. 30. Angry scenes in the Reichstag took place on Saturday during the debating on the military arrests of civilians. Deputies gave -a long catalogue of instances of oppression. Herr Dittmann, Socialist, said the military had established a reign of terror, and orgies of baseness and villainy. Young girls had been arrested and locked up with prostitutes. Even Government supporters joined in condemning the arrests. Herr von Helffericns, when replying, was constantly interrupted by angry exclamations. Being unable to pacify the House the sittings were suspended. Newspapers describe the sitting as one of the noisiest that has taken place since the war. They bitterly resent Herr Helfferich’s offensive tone, and his declaration that the Government restricts, for the duration of the war, the Reichstag select committees’ control of the foreign policy. Herr Helfferich’s apology or resignation is demanded.

THE UNHOLY TRINITY.

lAC’T"»(iix . vr> nz >hhn. j (Received 31, 11.5 a.m.) Rome, Oct. 30. The Kaiser, General Hindenburg, and Herr Bethmann von Hollweg held a conference at Berlin on measures to be adopted at the AVestern front and also the complications arising out of the submarine campaign.

MORE KULTUR. BRUTALITY TO PRISONERS. [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS ■ ’ Paris, Oct. 30. The Danish writer, Madame Branson, makes painful revelations regarding the prison camp at Guestrow (in Mecklenburg, south of Rostock), where Anglo-Russian consumptives are slowing dying, less of illness than of utter misery. TWENTY THOUSAND POLES EXECUTED. I REUTER’S TF.IPGRAMe Rome, Oct. 30. Austrian deserters describe the atrocious treatment inflicted, on Poles suspected of sympathising with Russia. They declare that twenty thousand were summarily executed. CONTROL OF PRESS IN SPAIN. XUSTHAMAN ANT> < Madrid, Oct. 30. The pro-Germans are making efforts to control the newspapers. They have purchased several in Madrid and the provinces, and have also lately started three in Madrid. AUSTRIAN TREACHERY REVEALED. f AUSTP »11 •*■ «ni> n 7 "inrf »SSN.I (Received 31, 11.5 a.m.) Bucharest, Oct. 30. Official.— Proceedings have revealed that a plot in 1915 to assassinate M. Bratiano and other Ministers, was organised by the AustroHungarian authorities. Austrian Staff officers trained the assassins to manipulate infernal machines, and Hungarian non-eommissioned officers brought in explosives. NEW WAR MINISTER.

HOHENBOPN AND STEIN CHANGE PLACES. (REUTER’S TELEGRAMS A (Received 31, 11.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, Oct. 30. The German War Minister Her von Hohenhorn has been appointed to the command of an army corps on the west front. General Stein succeeds him as War Minister. AUSTRALIAN ANU N-Z CAHLE ASSN- I (Received 31, 11.55 a.m.) New Yory, Oct. 30. Berlin reports that the change in the War Ministry from Herr, von Hohenborn to Herr von Stein is for the purpose of securing a War Minister familiar through personal experience with field armies’ requirements. [General von Stein, the new German War Minister, was mentioned last month among the German generals on the Somme. He was formerly Quartermaster-General, and for a long time belonged to the General Staff. As Staff Officer he. commanded the 33rd Held Artillery Regiment. I rum 1012 to the outbreak <.f war he was commander of the list Divi.ivn in Dmilsch-Eylau, and since December, 1914, he has been at the head of an Army Corps.]