GERMANY'S TROUBLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19803, 31 May 1926, Page 7

GERMANY'S TROUBLES

FATE OF THE REPUBLIC. MONARCHIST rising feared. STALLING OFF REFERENDUM. (Free* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) juONDON, May 28. Germany is at the cross roads, and the fate of the republic is in the balance, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily News. The Republicans and Monarchists, realisi-g that the referendum on the Roy; ’ property on June 20 may finally solve the constitutional problem, are now marshalling their forces. The terms of the proposed law, on which the referendum will be held, explain the Monarchists’ violence and vehemence; also the ex Kaiser’s fears. It provides that the entire Royal properties shall be confiscated and handed over to unemployed war cripples, peasants, small investors pensioners, and othe victims of the war and its aftermath, while the Royal castles, palaces, and shooting boxes will be transformed into hospitals and schools. The Monarchists and the notoriously turbulent Fascist wild men are drilling on the big estates within two hours railway journey from Berlin. This explains the persistence of the report of an imminent Monarchist rising The Republicans, including the Democrats, Socialists, and the majority of the Catholic workers, are preparing to parry the blow. The Communists are reconciled to indefinitely deferred Red parades, and have agreed, in the event of emergency, to join the Republicans. In the meantime, the Monarchist effervescence is growing, owing to the operations of the Hohenzollern agents, especiallv in reactionary Bavaria. The idea of a coup, upsetting the Government and setting up a dictatorship, thereby stalling off the referendum, is winning favour among the wild men.—Sydney Sun Cable.