HOUSING PEOPLE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10136, 26 November 1918, Page 5

HOUSING PEOPLE

A NATIONAL NECESSITY THE FIRST THING TO BE DONE. By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyrisbt Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. November 24. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Wolverhampton, said tho men who fought and, made the new world possible were entitled to a full share in its gladness. The first thing was to put right tho appalling waste of human material, j-ao slums were not fit homes ioi the men wno had won the war, nor nurseries for the children who would bo the future Imperial race.' The housing of the people must be a. national undertaking, and it was essential to have a more intelligent agricultural policy. The-land must be cultivated to its utmost capacity, and there must be reclamation of land, afforestation, and better transportation. If the Government were unable to get along because of Parliamentary obstruction, he would again appeal to the people. RUSSIAN HHUBDIE SHOCKING BOLSHEVIK EXCESSES NUMBERS OF PETROGRAD SOVIET PREPARE FOit FLIGHT. By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. 'AMSTERDAM. November 23. The Bolsheviks have been 'guilty of terrible excesses in Petrograd. Within the last few days 500 ex-officers have been murdered. Arrested foreigners are being employed as street cleaners. Fourteen members of the l'etrograd Soviet are in hourly fear of a counter-revolution, and the cruiser Aurora is anchored at the mouth of the Neva with steam up, ready to go to Copenhagen at the shortest notice. If the fourteen are denied a landing the voyage will "be ' Continued to' Brazil. A UNITED RUSSIA ON FEDERAL PRINCIPLES. Eeuter's Telegrams. COPENHAGEN. November 23. What is called an All-Russian Government, has been formed at Ekaterinburg (capital of the Caucasian Province of Kuban). It is of members of the General Staff of ithe old volunteer armv with Sudonoff m charge of Foreign Affairs. It is formed with a view of re-establishing a united Russia on federative principles, and keeping the Bolsheviks out of tho Ukraine. The strength and prospect* of the new Government are not known. HELP FROM OUTSIDE: URGENTLY NEEDED. - Renter's Telegrams. (Received November 25, 7.30 p.m.) f LONDON, November 24. } The .awful plight of Russia under Bolshevik rule was emphasised in the course of an interviow with a distinguished Russian just escaped from Petrograd. He says Russia is now in such a condition that no one element in her is sufficiently powerful to work her regeneration. She must have help from outside. Uncivilised elements are in complete control. Soldiers who beat back- the Germans with sticks are now "inlthe Red Guards, because there alonp can they find money and food. Officers join the Bolshevik army because they have to choose between that and being shot. HERR BALUN'6 SUICIDE STORY OF THE CAUSE. Australian and JT.Z. Cable Association LONDON. November 23. The "Daily Express" Amsterdam correspondent states that Herr Ballin's suicide was the direct consequoVce of a dispute with the Kaiser and Kaiserin in October, j Herr Ballin protested against Ludendorff dabbling in questions of reconstruction, which were outside tho sphere of a general who was plunging Germany into an abyss of defeat. The Kaiser, in tho presence of the Kaiserin, supported Ludendorff, whereupon Herr Balliri warned the Kaiser not to bo blinded to the real situation in Germany, which could not -live"unless- on decent terms with England. When Herr Ballin hinted at tho possibility of a revolution, the Kaiserin sprang to her feet and denounced'"Hebrew merchants who wanted to supplant the empire's real master. Herr iiallin'declined to answer, and left the room, a broken man. He sent for a journalistic friend to record the conversation and then shot himself in. tho heart when the Hamburg Soviet took over the Hamburg-America Palace for its headauarters. abdigateo~orTe™oned ■ Maljies SOME GERMAN STATISTICS. ' AnstraJlan and N.Z. Cable Ass-ociatloa. AMSTERDAM, November 23. German newspapers state that no fewer than 27S kings, queens, princes, princesses, dukes, and duchesses of Germany havo abdicated or been dethroned. Bavaria heads the lists, and lias sent thirty-nine into exile. Prussia has sent thirty-three,, and Bn.nswiclf is the lowest in the list with five.