NEUTRAL STATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17950, 18 November 1918, Page 5

NEUTRAL STATES.

BUTCH REVOLUTIONISTS. QUEEN’S ABDICATION DEMANDED NEW YORK, November 15. Revolutionists in, Holland are demanding the Queen’s abdication. SITUATION EASIER. (Deceived November 16, 2.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 15. Official: quarters regard the situation in Holland as much eased. The Allies are helping to ameliorate conditions, specially as regards the food supply. PROPAGANDA BY GERMAN DESERTERS. (Received November 17, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 16. Though the situation in Holland is threatening there is no general revolutionary movement. The breaking np or Germany is increasing the trouble. Many German deserters are distributing Bolshevik tracts and carrying on propaganda amongst the Dutch working classes. Troops are guarding public buildings rearly for any eventualities. FOOD FOR HOLLAND. A. Mid A'.Z. Cabin Association and Rnutnr. (Received November 17, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, November lliTlie Press Bureau states that tho Allied Food Council in London has arranged for tho diversion to Rotterdam of the steamship Adra, carrying seven thousand ten q of wheat, in order to tho serious distress in Holland,

SYNDICALIST RIOTS. ARRESTS IN COPENHAGEN. COPENHAGEN, November 14. Serious Syndicalist riots have occurred hero. Numbers have been wounded, and there have been many arrests. (Received November 17, 5.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, November 15. There were further syndicalist riots here. Eighty arrests have been made. SWEDEN. GOVERNMENT PROMISES REFORMS. STOCKHOLM, November 15. It is officially .announced that the. Government will reform the Constitution, enabling Parliament to control foreign policy, also far-reaching reforms havo been decided, dealing with political suffrage and local self-government. IN SWITZERLAND. END OF STRIKE. Reuter’s Telegrams. BERNE, November 15. Tho strike lias ended, the Federal Council having refused to listen to the conditions which the leaders sought to impose. Tlio Council threatened their arrest unless the strike was immediately called off.