CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19067, 12 January 1924, Page 9

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY

RESUMPTION OF CONTROL. BERLIN’S ATTITUDE CONCILIATOR Y. t>ra> Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, January 10. The resumption of Allied military control will be effected during the present week, following upon the announcement that the Government has taken measures to facilitate the Control Commission's visits on January 10 and 12-—Reuter. RHINELAND SEPARATION. FRANCE AND MR RAMSAY Macdonald. PARIS, January 10. As a result of British representations on the subject of the Separatist movement, it is announced that an enquiry will be made on the spot by the Rhineland Hiah Commission. Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s expression ol friendship for France has created a favourable impression. Le Temps says: “We shall do Mr MacDonald’s expressed intentions justice, and hope that he will do justice to those of France.” Le Journal des Debats says: “If Mr MacDonald, perserves in the sentiments he has expressed he will encounter the great goodwill of France, which is ready to discard mutual recriminations and .build up a sound policy.'’—Reuter STRIKES IN THE RLHR. COMMUNIST PLAN GENERAL UPHEAVAL. LONDON, January 1C Tim Berlin correspondent of The Times says that the strike of metei workers at Dusscldorf is spreading to the other ’ trades. There is a danger of a general - stoppage of work, which, according to the pronouncements of the strike leaders, would he ruthlessly applied. The., strikers marched through the streets, calling on the other* workers to come out. There were no violent dis- ; tnrhances, because the tradesmen closed ’ their shops .is a precautionary measure, j Communist agitators are energetically | scheming to create a general upheaval. Work has ceased at the Crefe’.d textile factories and cotton mills. The Crefelder Zeitung declares that Syndicalists from other parts of the Ruhr compelled the workers to leave under threats.—The Times. BAVARIAN PALATINATE. . MURDER OF HERR HEINTZ. DOES AUTONOMY EXIST? BERLIN, January 10. Besides Herr Heintz, three other Separatist leaders were shot dead and several people were wounded at an hotel at Speyer by a band of armed men. Five persons were killed in serious collisions between the Separatists and the populace in connection with the shooting of Herr Heintz.— A. and N.Z. Gable LONDON, January 10. The assassination of Herr Heintz, presumably by Nationalists, draws fresh attention to the Separatists’ doings in the Palatinate, a subject which is seriously occupying tb e attention of British official circles. The Separatist flag still flies over many town halls in other parts of occupied Germany, but apparently it is only in tlie Palatinate that the situation is anything like serious. A central Separatist administration has been established under the title of the “Government of the Autonomous Palatinate,” while the Separatists are de facto the governing authority in every Palatinate town. It is reported that the action of the RhineMnd High Commission iri accepting orders issued by the Separatist Palatinate Adminisfcratiqn is interpreted as practically an official recognition.—Reuter. DETAILS OF THE SHOOTING. A COLD-BLOODED MURDER. BERIJN, January 10(Received January 11, at 11.35 p.m.) An eye-witness of the assassination of Herr Heintz says that he was accompanied by a few friends at dinner at the Hotel at which, he was staying. Three youtlis entered and asked for Herr Heintz. They were conducted to the restaurant, where one darted behind Herr Heintz’s rharr and fired repeatedly point blank at ais head, Herr Heintz falling dead. Th® mur ' derer eventually, with his companions, all of whom were" firing, mortally wounded two passers-by in the street and less seriously wounded a number of others.— Reuter.