GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 April 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

AMERICAN MISSION'S VIEWS

MILITARY REVOLT IN BERLIN*

BAVARTAX PEASANTS RISK AGAINST SOVIETS.

Xt OABLB—PBESS ASBOCIATIOI*—OOPYBI«HT JSEW-5 ORK, April 4. The Times* Ooblenz correspondent interviewed viiembers of the American anilitary commission which visited Berlin for the purpose of making a rejport on the conditdwas there. The members said they thought that the Ebert. Government would keep in power until peace was signed and would then be forced to resign. The new government might be autocratic. The members declared <that the re- . ports of the Spartacist uprisings had been exaggerated by tie German authorities for the purpose of influencing the Paris Conference towards a speedy decision as to the peace terms. COPENHAGEN, April 6. It is rumored that a military revolt has toroken out in Berlin.NNosek c is acting and making many ar-reste.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •Ehe Spaftacistg occupied the Parliament buildings at Munich and proclaimed a Soviet republic A similar proclamsttion was mad© at mass meetings throughout the city. The troops did not participate, but refused to fight for the Government, declaring that tiheir sympathies were with the proletariat. Civil war in Bavaria is expected as Jhe peasants, whp are armed and organised, are marcKkig on Munich.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Association.

PARIS, April 6. A great foroa of armed peasantry is marching towards Munich to destroy the Spartacast's Soviet republic. The soldiers are at present neutral.—TJnitefl Ssi'VUHS.

NEW YORK, April 4. The Tnbiume's correspondent at 'Cdb%nz states *flia.t a well-defined Spartacast plot to seize American arms stored at Coblenz was frustrated by tlie military polio©, and nearly a score of the leaders were arrested.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asscociation. •