GERMAN AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17726, 10 September 1919, Page 5

GERMAN AFFAIRS

DIRECT-ACTION PARTY ACTIVE. DISTURBANCES IN SEVERAL TOWNS. THE MILITARY CALLED OUT. COPENHAGEN, September 9. (Received Sept. 9, at 9 p.m.) A cJc.iv.TgD in tho ranks of tho German Independent Socialist Party is threatened concerning direct action. Violent protests were made at the mrty'a general assembly in Berlin against lierr Haase, who advocated parliamentary action. There was great applause for Herr Daumig, direct actionist. Tho loaders withdrew the motion, fearing that the vote wouia result in open conflict. Subsequently troops, with machine guns, dispersed the extremists. A demonstration occurred at Spandau, where, five persons wero wounded, and gravo unrest prevails elsewhere in Germany. Riots led to street fighting in Uromen. Attempts to shoot General Vorbech at Stargard (in Poincrania) resulted in tho arrest of the would-be assassin. A crowd attempted to storm the prison, but troops dispersed the mob, and several were killed and wounded.—A. and N Z. Cable. REPATRIATING GERMAN PRISONERS. STRONG ANTI-BRITISH FEELING. DUTCH PRO-GERMANISM. LONDON, September 8. (Received Sept. 9, at 9.30 p.m.) The Trazosmontea discharged 1500 German prisoners at Rotterdam. There was a clean bill of health on the voyage, with no _ influenza. Intense anti-British and anti-Australian feeling was displayed, but an incipient insubordination was stopped with strong hands. Tho men attempted a hunger strike, but it lasted only four days. The Dutch authorities carried out the transfer without delay, and a hot meal was awaiting the Germans on disembarking. The prisoners were quickly despatched to Germany in two special trains. A party of "Diggers" climbed the masts sang "Australia Will Bβ There," and tho disembarked men retorted, crying out: "So will tho Germans." Australian officers and men on the Trazosmontes who visited Rotterdam are convinced that Holland is strongly proGerman.—A. and'N.Z. Cable.