CONFUSION IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17139, 19 April 1919, Page 9

CONFUSION IN GERMANY.

THREAT OF GRAVE CRISIS.

STARVING THE STRIKERS.

FOOD CUT OFF FROM RUHR.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 17.

The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News states that the utmost confusion continues throughout Germany, although the strike troubles appear momentarily less serious. The terrorist tactics of the Government in the Ruhr district are proving successful, starving the strikers into submission. Similar tactics are being employed in Brunswick and Bavaria, where the revolutionaries are too strong to be crushed by force of arms. Tho Brunswick revolutionaries attempted to break the barrier by sending a lorry with a woman and baby alongside the driver. Both were' killed by machine-gun fire.

The Bavarian revolution is still confined to the towns. There is an absence of land-hunger, as the farmers hold the freehold of their land. The revolutionary movement, therefore, can easily be starved. The bank strike is spreading to the provincial centres. OUTBREAK AT DRESDENMURDER OF WAR MINISTER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) BERNE, April 17. Rioters at Dresden stormed the office of the Saxon War Ministry, seized the Minister for War, Heri* Nauring, and threw him into tho Elbe. The men were furious because Herr Nauring refused to receive a deputation of wounded men. He ordered up troops to defend the Ministry. The mob persuaded the soldiers to distribute their rifles among the crowd. They found Nauring hiding. After he was thrown into the river he was fired on until he sank. (Received 5.5 p.m.) Router. BERLIN, April 17. Learning of Nauring's murder, Herr Noske arranged for the immediate despatch of sufficient troops to Dresden to restore order. FIGHTING IN DUSSELDORF. MANY SPARTACISTS KILLED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, April 17. Street fighting at Dusseldorf continues. The Spartacists, attacking the prison with machine-guns, were repulsed, 37 being killed and 110 wounded. STATE OF SIEGE IN DRESDEN SERIOUS STREET FIGHTING. (Received 5.5 p.m.) Router. BERLIN, April 17. An assault on the citadel at Dresden is momentarily expected. Fighting is proceeding in the streets. Troops garrisoned in the famous court church are defending the vital bridgehead. A state of siege has been proclaimed. The Soviets again control Munich. OCCUPATION OF RHINE. THE COST TO GERMANY. TOTAL OF £5,600,000 A MONTH. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, April 17. It is announced that tho maintenance of the Rhineland army of occupation costs Germany £5,500,000 a month.