GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1920, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.;

HEAVY FIGHTING

IN INTERNAL GERMANY(Received This Day at 11.20. a.m.) HEREIN, March 26 Tile situation at Halle is grave. The railway workers complain that the militry commander broke his promise of aii amnesty, given in response tq the * men’s promise' to resume work on Wednesday. According to the newspappr “Frpiheit” the military is exercising a regime of terror, consequently thp unions decided op a further general itr-iko. The military are arresting all whp helped in the revolution treating them in the cruellest manner. Many have been shot- ’Pilere is intense excitemenf and !*-»,. heavy fighting between communists and jßeichswehr is proceeding along the line pf Hamm, Hagen, Cologne, Dusheldorf Wesel, Munster, aqd Lippc river. ReVolutionarles hold many works in Westphalia which they threaten to ruin if w Reichswehr attacks them. 'The revolutionaries are well armed and entrenched alopg fhe Lippe river, .

INTERNAL GERMANY. (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Maiieh 26. Dutch reports state that a motley army of Communists are spreading over - the Ruhr district. They resemble robbers In a melodrama, daggers anl revolvers stuck in their belts, grenades dangling from their hands, There is little discipline troops. They confiscate all motors, and rob stores?. Tlie whole commanders of the army are exclusively Independent Socialists. The Communists are imbued with the real Bolshevik spirit, and declare their is no question of discontinuing fighting until a dictatorship of the proletariat is established. SLIPPERY GERMANY. (Received This Dav at 1 5. p.m.) PARIS, March 26. Henri Didon, writing from Mayence, declares the wholo old German military establishment is still intact, no fewer than 2,500,000 have been permitted to retain their arms. Tlie Reicliswhr totals 600,000 with an auxiliary army of 400,000 inclusive of 100,000 first quality troops. Government could mobilise at the (east 400,000 fighting men. . IN A HOPELESS STATE. BERLIN, March 29. The Communist lenders in the Ruhr district regard their prospects as hopeless and have asked for a renewal of the armistice.