RISING IN BAVARIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17254, 2 September 1919, Page 7

RISING IN BAVARIA.

COUP BY SOCIALISTS.

FIGHT FOR POST OFFICE,

PALATINATE REPUBLIC. Bj Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Received .9 p.m.) A. »nd N.Z. PARIS. Aug. 31. Advices from Berlin state that the Independent Socialists effected a coup at Ludwigshafen, one ' of the principal towns of the Bavarian Palatinate, where they captured the post office with grenades and proclaimed a provisional Palatinate Republic. A German news agency insinuates that French soldiers participated in the rising, but details are lacking.

The newspaper Temps states that it is known that the majority of the population of the Bavarian Palatinate are unfriendly to the Bavarian Government, which they regard as a mere dependency of Berlin.

Ludwigshafen, on« of the chief manufacturing towns ol the Bavarian Palatinate, is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, immediately opposite to Mannheim. It is a town of 86,000 inhabitants. The Palatinate, though separated from Bavaria by the Grand Duchies of Baden «nd Hesse, is a province of Bavaria. it has an area oi ii3oo square miles and a popuiaLon of 93/,000. The Palatinate was united to Bavaria in 1777, but in 1802 the Elector of Bavaria was obliged to cede the portion of the Palatinate lying on the left Dank of the Rhine to trance, and .ther portions to Baden and Hesse-Darm-stadt. Much of this, however, was regained in lbT5, and from that date the Palatinate has formed part of Bavaria.

GERMANY'S ARMY.

REDUCTION IN THE SPRING CONCESSION BY ALLIES. Renter. LONDON. Aug. 31. Herr Noske, German Minister for Defence, has announced that the Allies have agreed that the main reduction of the German Army need not be undertaken till the spring, in view of possible! disturbances in the winter.