GERMAN TRSACHERY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14008, 12 March 1920, Page 2

GERMAN TRSACHERY.

Tlie Allied Baltic Commission, under , the leadership of General Niessel, | which returned to Berlin early in | January, is remaining there until its | demands have been satisfied. I had ail opportunity of hearing at fiist hand the views of a oerson who is particularly well qualified to express lus impressions of the mission (say» the l,ondon Dailv Express correspondent). He said: "While Admiral Hopmann, the German representative with the mission, and the other specially attached official's acted honorably and straightforwardly, all the German civil and military authorities with whom I came in -touch during the tour acted in- bad faith and with bad will. "Thus General von Eberhardt signed two agreements, both of which were violated. One dealt with the surrender of stores, while in the second he undertook that the German troops should be transported by train. Instead ol surrendering their stores, tlio Germans destroyed or disposed of the, greater . part of them. Instead .ot the troops being transported by train, 11,000 returned on foot, "The evacuation was completed 011 December 14. but the delievrv of stores has not yet begun, with the exception of a small quantity extracted under direct pressure. Tlie mission received continual promises, but 110 fulfilment of them. The officers of the mission were • repeatedly in great, danger. Bombs were thrown and shots fired at them on several occasions, while every time they appeared they were greeted with insults. "An which was obviously preconcerted was made at Shavli on the saloon carriage reserved for officers of the mission and attached to General von Eberhardt's train. The saloon was detached overnight by the general's authority and as a- measure to ensure its safety during the wight, and was moved a hundred yards from the train, where it was subjected to.a vigorous bombardment with hand grenades." - \ . . •