CIVIL WAR AT MUNICH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 24 February 1919, Page 5

CIVIL WAR AT MUNICH.

SHOOTING IN THE DIET.

BAVARIAN MINISTER WOUNDED

.A DEPUTY KILLED

BAD OUTLOOK IN RUHR DISTRICT.

NEW NATIONALITIES' HARD-

SHIPS.

BERNE, Feb. 19. Herr Scheidemann, in a speech at TVeimar, declared that Munich was the jscene of a bloody civil war. Herr Aver (Bavarian Minister of the In--terior) had been murdered, as well as Herr Eisner, and three other Ministers had been wounded. The Sparta--cists had arrested Rosshaupter, who was wounded, not killed. * Another report 6ay that Herr Aver •was wounded, and not killed, but that Deputy Osel was killed.—Reuter. P y BERNE, Feb. 21.

During the sitting of the Diet at Munich, while Herr Aver, Minister of Home Affairs, was denouncing the assassination ot Herr Eisner, several shots were fired from the public gallery. The deputies took panic. Herr Aver collapsed, being hit by a bullet in the left side. Another bullet killed Deputy Ose.l, a member of the Bavarian popular party. Two officials were seriously wounded. " COPENHAGEN, Feb. 21. Following the general strike at Munich, an outbreak of civil war was signalised by the ringing of church, bells, and a procession of 10,000 workmen" inarched through the city. Violent firing began, and the shops were plundered, hundreds of citizens fleeing, but the Spartacists occupied the terminus and prevented further departures. The Spartacists, whose adherents include well-known anarchists, rushing through, the streets in armed motorcars, arrested Minister Rosshaupter, who is stated to have been wounded in the Diet affray.—Reuter. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. The United Press correspondent at "Weimar reports that the Workers' Council at Essen sent an ultimatum to the German Cabinet that unless the industries were immediately socialised and the minimum wage made higher than the present maximum, and all workers' councils recognised at once, "the Government would be overthrown. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BERNE, Feb. 20

Thirty-five thousand Government troops are advancing towards the Huhr district.

The Spartacists seized the Reich Bank's bullion reserve at Mulheim. — Reuter.

LONDON, Feb. 20

The Chicago News' Prague correspondent interviewed Masaryk, who «aid: There will be a trying time for the new nationalities until the next harvest, but after that we should be self-supporting. Difficulties were now «aiised by lack of rolling stock with which to transport commodities.— Aus-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LONDON, Feb. 21. The Vossisehe Zeitung states that Herr Rantzau is resigning, consequent on the hostile reception of his proGerman speech.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabl<? Assn.