GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1919, Page 5

GERMANY

A REGIMENT DISARMED (Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn, &■ Reuter) BERLIN, April 5. Government troops surrounded and occupied the barracks and disarmed a regiment showing Spartacist tendencies. TANK) UN BAVARIA. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) (COPENHAGEN, April 5. A Epar’acus upheaval at Munich is inevitable. Jielakun, . the Hungarian Foreign Minister, has arrived, and is repotted to be negotiating for a treaty be-ween Bavaria, Russia, and Hungary. A panic prevails, and the bourgeoisie arc fleeing en masse selling their property at any price. The railway stations are crowded. SOVIET KETUBLIC 'TEUCLAiMEiI). LONDON, April 5. Erzberger at Bpa received a wireless message announcing that a Soviet republic had been proclaimed at Munich. AN INACCURATE REPORT. (Rec. April 7, 9.20 a.in.) LONDON. April G. A Soviet republic has been jn’oclaimed at Augsbcrg (in Bavaria), not Munich. START AC U SiANS AND BOLSHEVIKS. (Aust: & N.Z. Cable Assn, & Reuter)

LONDON, April 4. The Daily Chronicle's _ Genova correspondent learns on reliable information that a formal secret trea’-y exists between the German Bpartacusian* and the Russian Bolsheviks. I: was concluded oil .January sth ,m Rosa Luxemburg’s room, "in the presence of Liebknccht and Radek, acting on behalf of Lenin." The latter undertook to recognise ■Liebknechv a* resident of the German Soviet Republic, and to furnish important funds for Spartacus propaganda, supply trained agents, and to order the Russian Bovie: army to the-Gorman frontier to support a, einui tanoons rising at Berlin. Liebknecht was pledged t 0 csCabbdi a Sonet Government and raise an army of half a million, which would bo placed under tho War Commissary an {Moscow. The murder of Liebknouit disarranged the concerted plan. T, i s believed that Ebert is toying with this agreement, and oven threatens to ratify it wi’di a new of intimidating the Entente.

GERMANY’S PEACE TERMS

A 1914 .DOCUMENT

LONDON, April 4. The Frankfurter Zeitung states that Ladaurer. one of tho people’s delegates at Munich .declares that he possesses a memorandum prepared by Erzberger in December. 1914, showing Germany's peace terms *o be imposed' on tho Al* bes. The terms include the annexation of Belgium and Normandy, a compact African. Empire, and an indemnity sufficient to nice.' the entire German dent?,.

RETORTED OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT.

(Rec. April 7, 11.30 a.m.) •VIENNA, April 6, It is reported that the Government at Budapest has been overthrown. There are no details as th 0 telephones are disconnected.