BITTER FEELING IN BERLIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17113, 19 March 1919, Page 7

BITTER FEELING IN BERLIN.

EXCESSES ON BOTH SIDES. —i SPARTACIST ATROCITIES. GOVERNMENT RUTHLESSNESS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rocd. 6.15 p.m.) BERLIN. Mar. 17. Twenty thousand troops under Luttwitz are making a house-to-house search. Intense class bitterness rules, and many atrocities have been committed. Women, armed with knives, attacked captured soldiers. The Spartacists stripped welldressed men and women, some to their underclothing, and others entirely. One shopkeeper, who had been stripped, ran down the street while the cheering Spartacists pelted him with hand grenades. A. and N.Z. COPENHAGEN. Mar. 17. The German newspaper Republik publishes a vigorous protest signed by 300 prominent men, including Herr Maximilian Harden, editor of the Zukunft, against the brutal spirit prevailing in Government circles and the ruthless killing of defenceless prisoners. Although Herr Noske has announced that the Spartacist insurrection have been definitely crushed, thero are widespread fears of a renewed outbreak, accompanied by a general strike throughout the country. MONARCHIST HOPES ALIVE. RETURN TO THE OLD REGIME. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Mar. 17. Baron von Kuhlmann, ex-German Foreign Minister, in a letter quoted in the Paris press, asserts that the former German Empire will be rehabilitated in a shorter time than people believe. The former rulers hope to recover some of their lost powers.