IN GERMANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17504, 21 December 1918, Page 7

IN GERMANY

WAR'S DEATH ROLL.

OFFICIAL UNDERESTIMATE.

_ LONDON, December 19. m^Vj V - Ce \ &ta ' te tllat the total Ger- £ the war k offi c ia Wy stated as 649,000. —Reuter, via America.

WAR AGAINST BOLSHEVISM.

DECLARED BY HERR EBERT.

THE HAGUE, December 18. (Received Dec. 20, at 11.15 p.m.) Herr Ebert, addressing a crowd at Ber•in' f! ec , e war on the Bolshevists, saving that the existing state of things must not continue. The business of the whole country and even the impending peace was at stake. The Government must be able to continue Imperial business, or it would repudiate responsibility. A People's Def v b ® m £ formed to render the National Assembly safe. The Government was determined to oppose all attempts to Interfere with the National Assembly, which should be called within a month.—Reuter, via America.

OCCUPATION OF BERLIN.

HERR EBERT'S ALLEGED ENTREATY.

PAiRIS, December 18 (Received Dec. 20, at 11.15 p.m.) if !1 s f lys , that is still persistently reported that the Ebert Government entreated the Allies to occupy Berlin.— Reuter, via America.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,

SAID TO BE A CERTAINTY.

/r> • i -r-* tDecember 18. (Received Dec. 20, at 11.15 pan.) * -Berlin newspapers almost without exception declare that the first day's session ot the congress of representatives of Soldiers and Workmen's Councils made the National Assembly a certainty.—Reuter via America* '

DEFEAT OF SPARTACUSIANS.

INDEPENDENT SOCIALISTS' DETERMINATION.

FOR A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

it> , December 19. (Received Dec. 21, at 0.10 a.m.) Ihe General Assembly of Independent Socialists at Berlin carried a resolution in KW onr a National AssemjV x IJ ? e resolution represents a great defeat of the Spartacusians. ° f troops from the fr ont occupied the tfown Hall and other public buildings m Nenkoln, a suburb of Berlin broke up meetings of Spartacusians, and dispersed extremists—A. and N.Z. Cable.