GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 23 August 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

NO WAR OF REVENGE

GERMANY DOING HER BEST

GREAT DIFFICULTIES TO BE .FACED.

I IMPOSSIBLE TO HAND OVER ! OFFICERS. BY CABLE-PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Aug. 23, 8.55 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 22. Herr Noske, interviewed at Wiemar, repudiated as absurd the idea of a war of revenge. Germany's policy was absolutely clear. She was making an immense effort to carry out the treaty conditions, but was faced by difficulties almost inextricable. Hotbeds of Bolshevism exist generally, and a second revolution in the winter is possible. The army must only be 100,000 by April. This meant that 150,000 men would shortly be thrown, into the streets, adding enormously to the unemployed difficulty. It was impossible to hand over the German officers. No one had yet clearly pointed out a single act which could be imputed to an officer. Herr Noske added: "It is a moral impossibility to intervene in the surrender of officers to an enemy army."

OPERATIONS AGAINST THE POLES

BERLIN. Aug. 20. Military operations in Upper Silesia are progressing systematically towards tlie Polish frontiers.