GERMAN AFFAIRS.
COMMUNIST MOVEMENT. GENERAL UNREST. By Teloqraph—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. BERLIN, May 16. The Communist movement continues rampant. Fifty thousand bank officials are striking throughout Germany, and probably all banks will be closed tomorrow.
Armed workers have taken possession of Sangerhausen, a town in Saxony, proclaiming a Communist Government, levying 300,000 marks from the post office, and 200,000 from the bank.
THE NEUTRAL ZONE. Reuter's Telegrams. (Received May 18, 1.15 a.m) BERLIN, May 17. With a view to preventing a repetition of untoward incidents on the occasion of the evacuation of Frankfort, tho French demanded a number of hostages also a guarantee of a million marks.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18411, 18 May 1920, Page 5
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