GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

A MONARCHIST MOVE

EBERT'S APPEAL FOR COMMON-

SENSE,

MANY ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION-H3OPYJBIGHT 7 .AMSTERDAM, Aug. 30. Notices ar e displayed in Benin book shops appealing for support to the movement of imperial reaction/adding: "Germany needs the Hotienzollerns as mankind needs light.'. 3 LONDOJS, Aug. 29. A Geneva message states that, despite the shortage and high prices of food in France and Italy, both countries are making tremendous efforts to sell Germany foodstuffs, including fruit, vegetables and wine. Vast. stocKs are' accumulating in' Switzerland in readiness for delivery. Swiss profiteers are swindling the Germans in a bare-faced manner offering food in lots of. 100 car loads and giving no details. Many cars have-been found to contain canary seed and chestnut flour. Unscrupulous French. Italian and Swiss traders are reaping vast profits, because German speculators are willing to pay thrice what foreign speculators could obtain. There is. no evidence that Englishmen are participating in this profiteering. The Government is arranging an international import market at Frankfort which is likely to become a «ongress for international profiteers..!; ; .

BERLIN, Aug. 30. Food riots occurred at Oppeln, in Prussia. Troops occupied all th e pubv lie buildings. ; Some of the Bavarian textile factories are closing down owing to shortage of raw materials and coal, ■ rendering idle thousands.

.:;: :, \■:■■ ...-■:.. GENEVA, Aug. 30: .-. According t o ,the:NNeeu c Freie Yolks Zeitung of Munich,, although the German miners? working day is the shortest on the.Continent, they are indifferent to the threatened economic ruin; and devote as much of their labor t6 other industries as to the cdal mines. The .Chamber of \Commerce and other bodies in^Frankforthave frantically appealed to the Government to increase the, output of coal, pointing out the danger of a complete, industrial staridstiir in the absence of drastic measures, in which case it -would be necessary to appeal to the Entente for foreign workmen < to: exploit the' mines. ■ "

\ BERLIN, Aug. 30. President Ebert, in a speech at Stuttgart, urged, the necessity for unity, while preserving the racial characteristics of ?the German people. Herr Ebert said: "In a constitution based on democracy /Ind- the .outcome of the freest'suffrage in the world everyone is entitled to express opinions freely and actfreelv in political matters, but freedom without'reins or limitations would be anarchy. We cannot allow senseless strikes to systematically destroy the foundations of our existence." Herr Ebert added that the State would do its,, utmost to safeguard the coal supply and satisfy just claims. ' ■ . ,■-. LONDON. Aug. 30: The German Government committee at North Schleswip: is 'confiscating and conveying to Hamburg all the large stocks of goods, regardless pf whether they belong to,local merchants or speculators from the south. Merchants who •rirotest are told that their claims can be made later. ■ ;