CONFLICT OF GERMAN FEELING FOR AND AGAINST KAISER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17026, 6 December 1918, Page 5

CONFLICT OF GERMAN FEELING FOR AND AGAINST KAISER

BED FLAG HAULED DOWN AND BURNED BY SOLDIERS.

HINDENBURG PROMISES LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL REFORM. 'Auitrali&n and N.Z. and Eeutex. (Eecd. 9.45 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 4. | A meeting of delegates* from the field armies resolved to support •the Government against counter-revolutionary attempts.

1 1 The Essen Gazette states: The Kaiser's true soldiers twice hauled down the red flag from the Stadthous© at Kreusnach, and burned it amid the cheers of crowds which applauded pro-Kaiser speeches. In order to avoid bloodshed the Workers' and Soldiers' Council resolved provisionally not to hoist the red flag again. Hindenburg has issued a proclamation to the troops, appealing for patience for a little longer. He announces that the preliminaries for land settlement on a large scale have begun, and will be expedited. The scheme provides for the building of hundreds of thousands of houses upon cheaply-acquired land with public funds at low rates for farmers and gardeners; similarly for the building of houses in garden suburbs for town workers, including .those engaged in sedentary employments. rffiecciTed 8.20 p.m.) COPENHAGEN. Dee. 4. The Soviet at Liepsic has decided that army headquarters shall Ee dissolved and Hindenburg arrested.