EFFORT OF FORCE GENERAL STRIKE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 4 March 1919, Page 5

EFFORT OF FORCE GENERAL STRIKE.

Minister of colonies dis-

appointed

ASSEMBLY PROTESTS AGAINST

LOSS OF POSSESSIONS.

BY CABIiE— PSBSS ASSOCIATION -COPYBIGHT

COPENHAGEN, March 1. The bourgeois counter-strike i>eguu at Leipzig, resulting in the closing of shops, angered the Spartacists. BERLIN, March 1. The civilians' council threatens a genetral strike of the bourgeois if the strike epidemic among the workers spreads. The Government troops have entered Duaseldorf. The Spartacists made no resistance- The employers conceded the strikers' demands fox a -75 ,per cent, increase in wages.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.

BERLIN, March 2. It is stated the Independent Socialists are attempting propaganda for a class war through forcing a .general German strike.

It seems likely that sanguinary fighting will result in every large city in Germany, and ruin, -worse than, in Russia, appears to be impending.—Aue.N.Z. Cable Association.

AMSTERDAM, March 2. An explosion at a munition depot near Cologne killed thirteen. persons. Weimar telegrams state that the female members of the National Assembly proposed and carried a motion demanding the immediate raising of the blockade and the release of German war prisoners. A motion was also oairried demanding the return of the German, colonies- The Independents opposed the motion.

Herr Bell, Mirister for the Colonies, declared that Article 19 in the League •f Nations covenant painfully surprised and bitterly disappointed the Germans. It represented veiled annexation. It was vital for Germany -to have colonies. He kas appealed to President Wilson to see the olaim settled in such a way as will create au unshakeable league, wiich, will guarantee a lasting world's peace. The Assembly paesed a Bill providing for a moratorium within the. Empire, also a Bill empowering the Government to take all economic .and financial measures necessary to carry out the armistice. —Aus.-N,Z. Cable Association.

BERNE, Mach 2. The Soviet 'Congress at Munich decided by a large majority not to declare Bavaria a Soviet Republic. The minority threaten another-revolution-

The National Assembly at Weimar adopted a resolution protesting against the Peace Conference proposals for the disposal of the colonies, on the ground that they were incompatible with President Wilfiori?s fifth point, and demand, ing the return of the colonies. The Independents alone, did not participate in the protest.—Lßeuter.