IN GERMANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17575, 17 March 1919, Page 5

IN GERMANY

GOVERNMENT TROOPS SUCCESSFUL. BERLIN, March 14. The Government, troops have occupied the Lichtenberg quarter.—A. and N.Z. Cable. STREET FIGHTING IN BERLIN. DAMAGE BY REVOLUTIONARIES. DEATHS OYER ONE THOUSAND. COPENHAGEN, March 13. (Received March IS, at 3.3 p.m.) Berlin advices state that the damages as the result of the street fighting exceed 40,000,000 marks. The dead are estimated at over 1000.—Renter. ANOTHER REPUBLIC. NEW YORK, March 12. (Received March 16, afc 5.5 p.m.) The New York World's Coblenz correspondent says a widespread movement haa been launched for the formation of an independent republic in the Rhineland province. Westphalia may be included in the republic^—A. and N.Z. Cable. GOVERNMENT TROOPS' ATROCITIES. PUBLIC RESENTMENT INTENSIFIED. LONDON, March 12. (Received March 16, at 11 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent- states that the discovery that ■the Berlin Military Press Bureau fabri- j cated many stories of Spartacist atrocities has intensified public resentment at' the horrors perpetrated by the Government troops in wiping out many innocent people with the guilty.—A. and N.Z. Cable. HOW SWITZERLAND IS AFFECTED. PARIS, March "14. (Received March 17, at 0.5 a.m.) A proposal has been made that Vorarlberg should become a canton of Switzerland, but the Italian and French cantons oppose the proposal on the grounds that it would accentuate a preponderance of German population.^—A. arid N.Z. Cable. ; RECONSTRUCTED CABINET. ' WEIMAR-, March 14. (Received March 17, at 0.5 a.m.) The Government has appointed Herr Brockdorff-Rantzau President and Herrs Giersbert and David members of the Cabinet. Dr Mueller has been appointed Minister at Berne.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE INDEMNITY QUESTION. PARIS, March 14. (Received March 17, at 0.5 a.m.) Mr Murdoch (war correspondent) writes that there is every prospect that the indemnity discussion will be cut short by an agreement amongst experts that Germany cannot possibly pay more than a certain amount. Americans mention'six thousand million dollars. The Hon. W. Hughes continues in lonely isolation the, fight for putting the whole bill of all costs of the war into the peiace preliminaries. The British delegates describes this as " affronting every expert opinion, and is merely baying for the moon."—A. and N.Z. Cable.