GERMANY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18414, 21 May 1920, Page 5

GERMANY.

reparations commission. By Telegraph—Pre*» Aszociation —Copyright. Ai»»tndi»n ud N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 18. M. Poincare has resigned the presidency ofs the Reparations Commission, on the ground that the Premiers’ Conference at Hyth© ignored the Commission. Reuter's Telegrams. BERLIN, May 19. The war criminals mentioned in the list recently presented to Germany have been summoned by the Public Prosecutor to appear before the Supremo Court at Lcinzig. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 19. The “Echo de Paris ” states that the Spa conference is fixed for May 22. M. Millerancl and Mr Lloyd George will have a final .discussion at Osteud, en arntte to the conference. BERLIN, May 19.

It is reported that the Government will submit a financial lyrogramine 4° the Entente at Spa and demand guarantees that the Allies, will not impede the restoration of ‘Germany by new occupalions of territory. It also will asls for the restoration of the old frontier Customs duties with simplified connection between, occupied and unoccupied districts. GERMAN ELECTIONS. • BERLIN, May 18. The Landtag elections in Brunswick and Mecklenbu'rg-StrelitZj and the Constituent Assembly elections in Danzig, reveal a retrograde tendency. Many plural Socialists have gone over to the Independents, and a great many Democrats have joined the Conservatives. The German Popular Party at DanEig_ secured thirty-four seats, the majority Socialists nineteen, the Independents twenty-one, and the Poles seven. The elections fairly indicate th 6 possible trend of the Reichstag elections. MONARCHICAL MOVEMENT. MUNICH, May 19. Royalists, numbering a quarter of a million,' have issued an election manifesto, promising a monarchy on the basis of a plebiscite and tho restoration of constitutional independence to Bavaria within tho framework of the German Empire. “ Vorwaerts ” reports that Government troops raided the office of General von Lettow. They also seized large quantities of arms, munitions and aeroplane parts secreted on several estates fr, tho neighbourhood.