GERMAN AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17712, 25 August 1919, Page 5

GERMAN AFFAIRS

EFFORT TO FULFIL TREATY TERMS.

ANOTHER REVOLUTION POSSIBLE.

Frt** Aaeooiation—By Telegraph—Copjrigkt. PARIS, August 22. Hevr Noske, Minister of Defence, interviewed at Weimar, repudiated us absurd the idea of a war of revenge. Germany's policy, he said, was absolutely clear. She was making an immense effort to carry out the treaty conditions, but she was faced by difficulties from which it was almost impossible to extricate herself. Hotbeds of Bolshevism, says Noske, exist generally, and a second revolution in the coming winter is possible. According bo the terms the German army must comprise only 100,000 men by April. This meant that 150,000 soldiers would shortly be thrown into the streets, adding enormously te the unemployment difficulty. It would bo impossible to hand over German officers for trial. No one yet had clearly pointed out a single act which could be imputed to an officer. Noske added: "It is a moral impossibility to intervene in the surrender of officers to an enemy army."—A. and N.Z. Cable.

PRESIDENT INSTALLED

NEW FOREIGN COMMITTEE.

BERLIN, August 22. (Received Aug. 24, at 6.5 p.m.) There was much ceremony when President Ebert took the oath in the National Assembly at Weimar. Great crowds participated. Herr Ebert, in a speech, emphasised the need of Labour in the Empire's service in order to rebuild the Fatherland, whose new and vital principle would be freedom and right. The Assembly has formed a- new Foreign Committee, of which Herr Scheidemann is president and the Centralist, Herr Spahu is vice-president.—Renter.

ARMY OF OCCUPATION

STRENGTH OF AMERICAN FORCES

WASHINGTON, August 23. (Received Aug. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) The War Department announces that after September 1 the United States army remaining in Germany -will number 6000 picked men.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

GERMAN CAPITAL.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST EXODUS. LONDON, August 22. (Received Aug. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) Squadrons of police aviators are beinw formed in Berlin, the main object being to prevent the smngglbg of capital from Germany.—A. and N.Z.. Cable.