MUCH UNEASINESS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10540, 17 March 1920, Page 6

MUCH UNEASINESS

PRECAUTIONS IN BERLIN,

Renter's Telegram. . BERLIN, March 14. Hitherto there has keen no hostility towards foreigners, and officers of the Entente Mission, in military motorcars, have to-dav been allowed to pass the barricades. The entrance into "the Wilhelmstrasse outside the British Embassy, however, is barred with barbedwire, protected by field and machineguns. The ordinary Berliner has hitherto treated tho revolution outwardly lightly, hut an undercurrent of uneasiness i 3 prevailing. It is supposed that the Agrarian Party will support the revolution. Large quantities of food are being sent to Berlin with a view to maintaining the prestige of tho Government. The newspapers "Freihcit" and "sVorw.aerts" have been suppressed, and tho offices axe occupied by troops. WIDESPREAD UNREST. SERIOUS OUTBREAKS IN VARIOUS PARTS. PARIS, March 15. Fighting is reported in Hamburg, Weimar, Eisenbach, and Frankfort. Many wero tolled and scores were

wounded. The 'ships at Kiel fired on tho city, and the soldier* drove out women and sailors at the point of the bayonot. BERLIN, March 15. Collisions between the police and workmen occurred in Frankfort, and fifteen people were killed and a. hundred wounded. Tho polico were forced to leave the town, as tho crowd took possession of the depot whero their arms wore stored. All tho troops in Southern Germany have joined tho new regime. WAR TO CRUSH BOLSHEVISM. BERLIN, March 15. General von Luttwitz, the new Minister for War, in an interview, said that Germany plana to tight Bolshevism to the death. In order to do this moro than 100,000 troops will be required, and with the permission of the Allies an offensive will begin in May. Von Luttwitz further stated that he has 7000 troops at his disposal in Berlin, and will use machine-guns against tbo strikers if neceaaary.

OLD GOVERNMENT CHANGES HEADQUARTERS. LONDON, March 15. General Marker, commanding the Dresden garrison, has declared for the new regime, and so Ebert, Noske, and Bauer wont on to Stuttgart where they sire now organising a general strike. It is rumoured that the revolutionaries desire the Kaiser's second son, Eitol, ito succeed to the tinrono.