FURTHER REPORTS OF DISORDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 15 February 1919, Page 5

FURTHER REPORTS OF DISORDER.

SPARTACISM SPREADING

STATE OF SIEGE AT HAMBURG

8X CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHS1

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 13. Owing to the Bremen workmen's, refusal to give up arms, the commander of the troops refused to renew the armistice, Fighting followed in several parts of the city, resulting in a number of casualties.

At a mass meeting; at Berlin, Erzeberger and Dernburg were among the speakers. Both protested against the Allies retaining the German colonies,. as their possession was an economic necessity for Germany and not a luxury. Germany had a moral right to keep them.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BERLIN, Feb. 12. A correspondent who has returned from the.interior states that Spartacism is rapidly spreading throughout Germany. Munich, Frankfort, Stuttgart Nuremburg and other cities are in a state of disturbance. The population is demoralised, dirty and unkempt suffering from cold and hunger. '.The towns are neglected, being untended and unswept. The municipal services are almost at a standstill. The further you get into Germany the stronger the bpartacists .seem to be.—Times Service

COPENHAGEN, -Feb. 12. A state of siege hassbeen declared at Hamburg. Government troops drove armored cars in the streets, disarmed the_ workers, and seized twenty Spartacists' machme-guns,. stores- and am-munition.—Aus.-N.Z. able Assn.