GERMAN ATTACKS ON ALLIED OFFICERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14009, 13 March 1920, Page 6

GERMAN ATTACKS ON ALLIED OFFICERS.

BRAGGARTS AND PSEUDO PATRIOTS. * HT EI.EHTMO Tkf.EGRAI'H—CoPYRHHIT / I'bb Press Association. iAus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 12. at 5.25 p.m. . PARIS, March 11. There art- frequent demonstrations of hostility against Allied officers throughout Germany. A British colonel, with French, and Belgian officers, under the guidance of a German officer, was inspecting a camp at Brandenburg in connection with German demobilisation, when the soldierv commenced to jeer. The German officers ordered them to desist, but the soldiers became, turbulent, and stoned tlie officers, injuring one British and one Belgian. - Another outrage occurred at Bremen, where a fore of alleged German war prisoners from France brutally maltreated two French and one Italian officers. Received March 12, at 10 p.m. BERLIN, March 11. Hen- Bauer has appealed to the nation to observe a dignified attitude towards foreign missions. He said the Government would severely repress braggarts and pseudo-patriots who endangered the nation by attacks on members of Allied missions. Received March 12 at 9 5 -p.m, -BERLIN. March 10. There is the utmost tension at. the inter-Allied outraees. \pologising to General Nollett. (heacl < f the inter-Allied Commission) and M de Mareillv (French Charge d Atraires) for the Ad lon brutality, Herr Muller attempted to justify the attacks, saving that everybody stood up for the singing of the National Anthem in Allied countries. General Nollett drily replied. "Detischland nber Alles" is not the German National Anthem. General Nollett then complained of a worse outrage— naineh. the attack on three uniformed Allied officers visiting Prcuzlaii" Barracks. Brandenburg. m connection with the demobilisation ot the Germanv arm v. When the German troops jeered and limited and relted stones at. the Allied officers « ho «ere inspecting the camp_. the «""- mandant appeared with his at the door of the officers .quarters and ordered the men to fall in. which was >o promptly obeyed as to suggest that the men Were not out oi hand. bu. that the outrage was secretly arranged bv authority. The Conservatives and Pan-Germans :.re working hard to fail the anli-Al-lied name ignited by Prince Joachim. It is abundantly proved that ui> Prince started, the Adlnn row and led the attack. He was heart! to shout. ••Beat the swine to death. Prince. .loaJiini pleads mistaken identitv. and thus contemptuously dis-,ni.-ses"tbe plea, first of being 'drunk, then of hcing insolent, and then row"'S'he bandmaster at the hotel admits that Prince .loachim frequently bribed the voiing. junkers to play "JMitseh-, land uher Alles." in the hopes ot stinting a demonstration. The Wermitz atfrav was the oiitcoimof a partv of French officers shooting. Thev were strung in line, beating up bird's, when all the inhabitants of the village rushed and attacked them. It transpires that Naval Commander Na-di. and some Italian and .Japanese were the victims of another outrage at Bremen. They were surrounded by a yelling mob, who wanted to throw them into the dock, ine police with difficulty effected their rescue.