TROOPS REFUSE TO LEAVE BALTIC PROVINCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 29 August 1919, Page 5

TROOPS REFUSE TO LEAVE BALTIC PROVINCES.

FURTHER SPARTACIST TROUBLE

EXPECTED

BT CABLE—PEBSS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT LONDON, Aug. 28. The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent states that General von der Goltz's troops, which were engaged to protect Lettland and Courland from Bolshevism, refuse to evacuate the provinces, and express their determination to seize estates in payment for their services. They declare they 1 will remain as outposts of the Homeland, especially of East Prussia, against the Bolshevists. They sent a message to President Ebert demanding that they be settled on their own lands m the Baltic, according to promise. It is undoubtedly the policy of the Junkers to plant strong German colonies in Lettland and Courland in defiance of the treaty. General von der Goltz, ignoring orders, returned to Mitau and unsuccessfully attempted to restore order. The troops overwhelmed the Lettish regiments, plundering the stores.

The Government has issued a proclamation stating that the Government appreciates the troops' disappointment, but has no power to fulfil their wishes. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent says that although Germany at present is apparently more peaceful than since the armistice, there are many hints of impending trouble. The Government's manifesto that it is aware that deep-laid Spartacist plots will mature in the autumn, and the Bavarian Government's • warnings against a general strike are causing anxiety. Herr Noske's "mailed fist" methods are creating suspicion. The Radical elements are holding meetings throughout the city and suburbs, urging woi-kers to preserve the revolution. Herr Noske has restricted the sale of arms, and forbidden the carrying of arms in the vicinity of meetings. He has also prohibited the publication of new newspapers without permission BERLIN. Aug. 27. The People's Partv will nominate Hindenburg for the forthcoming presidential election.