GERMAN JUNKERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18592, 28 June 1922, Page 5

GERMAN JUNKERS

THE MONARCHISTS’ FLAG

STANDARD OF MURDER.

ALLEGATIONS IN REICHSTAG

MONSTER REPUBLICAN DEMON STRATION.

Press Association. —By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, June 26. The Republican demonstration in the Lustgarten created an enormous impression. Two hundred thousand people were present. , In the Reichstag on Sunday Herr Weis, on behalf of the Majority Socialists, declared that the Monarchists’ flag in Germany had become the standard of murder. Herr Helffcrich should disappear from public life.

Herr Hergt (a Pan-German) denounced the tragedy, but he said that the presidential decree, forbidding Nationalist gatherings,, was opposed to the spirit of the Constitution, and was destructive to liberty. Herr Crispien (Independent Socialist) stated that all the officers should be dismissed from the Reichswehr and the police. The property which formerly was owned by the ruling houses should be confiscated for the purpose of reparations. Dr Wirth said he saw the Lustgarten demonstration, which was orderly and calm; but beneath this discipline lay a volcano, the eruption of which would teach a severe lesson. The nation’s enemies were those who poured poison into the wounds of the nation. Those enemies were on the Right.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

DR RATHENAU’S ASSASSINATION.

A SENSATIONAL CLUB,. BERLIN, June 26. A sensational clue to Dr Rathenau’s assailants was furnished by a man who met the motorists with their goggles off, standing by the car. The description tallies with that of Shultz and Tillesen, the alleged murderers of Erzbergor.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE. BERLIN, June 26. In connection with Dr Rathenau’s assassination, Captain Carl Tillesen (a brother of the suspected murderer of Herr Erzberger), and Captain Hoffman (who is also suspected of complicity in a recent attempt upon the life of Herr Scheideman), and 11 members of a Bavarian secret society have been- arrested.—Reuter. 1 (Received June 27, at 11.45 p.m.) Following on Herr Weis’s disclosures, several anti-Republicans, including the well-known Monarchist, Captain Hoffman and Carl Tillesen (brother of one of Herr Erzberger’s murderers) were arrested. Tillesen was caught when 'crossing the Danish frontier. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

MONARCHISTS AND WORK,MEN.

COLLISIONS IN SAXONY.

SERIOUS CASUALTIES.

BERLIN, June 26. Collisions between Monarchists and workmen are reported at Loschwitz (Saxony), Nuremburg (Bavaria), and Freiburg (Prussia). The casualties are most serious.—Reuter. AN UNSAVOURY INCIDENT. BERLIN, June 26. (Received June 27, at 11.45 p.m.) An unsavoury incident is reported from Munich, where a newspaper office was decorated, and on / every door a poster appeased reading: “Rathenau is dead. Ebert, Wirth, and Scheidemann are still alive.” Bavaria is the only state where Dr Rathenau is not officially mourned.—A. and N.Z. Cable.