GERMAN DANGER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11248, 28 June 1922, Page 6

GERMAN DANGER

VOLCANO BENEATH CALM REPUBLICAN DISPLAY CAUSES GREAT IMPRESSION. ENEMIES OE THE RIGHT. Ry Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright uustralian aud N• 7. Cable Association. BERLIN, June 26. A Republican demonstration in the L’.islgartr-n made an enormous impression." Two hundred thousand people were p reset] t. lii trie Reichstag on Sunday, Herr Weis, on behalf of tho -Majority Socialise-. declared that the Monarchist flag m Germany had become the standard of murder. Dr. Helfferich should disappear from public life. Herr Hergt (Pan-German) denounced tho tragedy, but said that the Presidential decree was opposed to the spirit of the Constitution and destructive of liberty. Herr Crispien (Independent Socialist) declared that all the of'lccrs should bo dismissed from the ReichswehT and tho police, and tho property of former ruling houses should be confiscated for the purpose of paying reparations. Dr. Wirth (Chancellor) said he saw the Lustgarten demonstration, which was orderly and calm; but beneath the-discipline lay a volcano, the eruption of which would teach a severe lesson. The nation’s enemies were three who poured poison into the wounds of the nation: and those enemies were on the Right. RATHENAU’S DEATH ARREST OE SUSPECTS. BERLIN, June 26. In connection with the assassination oi Dr. Ratlienau. Captain Karl Tielessen, brother of flio suspected murderer of Dr. Erzberger, and Captain Hoffmann (who is also suspected of complicity in a recent attempt upon the life of Herr Scheidemann), and eleven members of a Bavarian secret society, have been arrested. Collisions between workmen and Monarchists are reported from Loschwitz, Nuremberg, and Freiburg. Tho casualties were not serious. - An earlier message stated: —A sensational clue to Dr. Ratlienau’s assailants has been furnished by a man who met some motorists, with their goggles off. standing by a car. Their description tallies with that of Schultz and Tielesuen, the murderers of Dr. Erzberger. IN BAVARIA DEAD STATESMAN NOT AIOURNED. (Received June 27, 11.45 p.m.) BERLIN, June 26. An unsavoury incident is reported from Munich, where a newspaper office was decorated and on every door a poster appeared reading “Rathenau dead; Ebert, Wirth, and Scheidemann still alive.” Bavaria is the only State where Dr Rathenau was not officially mourned.