GERMANY'S CONFUSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18548, 5 November 1923, Page 7

GERMANY'S CONFUSION.

AIX TOWN HALL STORMED. FIGHTING IN DRESDEN. A. and N.Z. BERLIN". Nor. 2. Tho political crisis is unsettled, notwithstanding all day long conferences and Cabinet meetings. Dr. Stresemann is in bed, suffering from a heart? attack. fifteen hundred Separatists arrived at Aix-liv-Chapelle from Coblenz, Crefeld and Duisburg, and besieged the Town 'Ball, which firemen, security police and Communists defended, hurling sulphuric acid bombs at the Separatists. The latter dynamited the doors of the building, which was occupied after lively fighfing. Sej>aratisls proclaimed a Republic at. Crefeld. They searched tho houses and seized all sporting guns. A message from Dresden says that 15 were wounded in street fighting, a largo crowd attacking the lloichswehr. NEGOTIATIONS WITH KRUPPS. FRENCH REPORT PROGRESS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 4.5 p.m.l PARIS, Nov. 2. Discussions with Herr von Bohlen ■Crupp so far have resulted in agreement regarding the Salzer, Neuack, Hanover, Hannebal, Helen and Thalin mines. CURRENCY GAMBLING. FRANTIC SPECULATION. A and N.Z. LONDON, Nov. 2. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Berlin says the mark made a recordbreaking dive into tho abyss. It nearly doubled in worthlessness during the day, tho plunge being accompanied by feverish buying on tho Stock Exchange and wild speculation in the script of the £old loan. This script bears a face value of one dollar, and fhese German dollars are now selling at about 30"),000 million marks. Thus the new currency is becoming a fresh counter for gambling. Food and goods in tho shops are now priced at so many gold marks, and the equivalent number of paper marks, but as the price in paper is. based on the exchange value, the price in gold marks is sometimes changed three times a day.