GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 24 April 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

HEAVY FIGHTING NEAR MUNICH GENERAL PLUMER'S WARNING. ~~—~* i AGAINST DISORDER IN OCCUPIED ' AREA. ! 81 CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPJRIGHT (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.)

LONDON, April 17. Civil war is in progress at Munich. Herr Noske's troops, which have been despatched against the Bavarian So-j viet Republic, met the Bavarian Red; -Guards near Uffing,, thirty miles ■couth-westward of Munich, resulting iv a sanguinary battle. | The actual attack' against Munich began near Dachsu, a market town 11! miles north-west of the city, where 10,000 armed Communists are opposing Bamberg's Government troops. I Munich was expected to fall on Sun-' .day. AMSTERDAM, April 18. Government troops occupied Brunswick without resistance. General Mer-i ker ordered the arrest of the Premier! and several commissaries. It was an- j nounced from an aeroplane that the city "was in a state of siege. \ General . Eichorn, ex-president of police in Berlin, who attempted to j escape by an aeroplane, was forced to descend, and was arrested. j LONDON, April 20. General Plumer, who is commanding the army on the Rhine, has issued a proclamation warning the workers against causing disorder similar to that prevailing in the unoccupied portion of Westphalia. The proclamation' states that the condition of affairs throughout Germany is becoming daily more serious, owing to industrial unrest and the prevalence of strikes.