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GERMANY

COMMUNIST DISTURBANCE. BERLIN, January 16. A disturbance occurred at Konigsberg on the occasion of the celebration of the death of Herr Lieblcnecht. A Communist crowd attacked the police, who were re inforced, and scattered the attackers. There were a number of casualties. FOOD SWINDLE. BERLIN, January 16. The police discovered a swindle involving millions of marks. A woman named Mohl persuaded the Customs officials that unlimited sums had been placed at her disposal from America to relieve distress in Germany, and she was thereupon granted permission to import, duty free, a hundred wagon loads of foodstuffs. Thirty wagons were already sold, the swindler reaping the benefit. GERMAN COAL SUPPLIES. LONDON, January 17. German delegates will attend an executive meeting of the Miners’ International Conference in London next week. The Germans represented to the international that they are working overtime in direct opposition to the Washington Labour Convention’s decision, and that the coal is being delivered to the Allies below the market price, with the result that France is glutted with coal, while Germany is in want of it. The situation is likely to be discussed when the international assembles. A STARTLING ALLEGATION. PARIS, January 17. The Matin’s Hague correspondent states that Holland will ask the llohenzollerns to leave the country, as the Government has obtained conclusive evidence that they are planning a coup d’etat, the Crown Prince intending to seize the Government at Berlin. MONARCHIST CELEBRATIONS. LONDON, January 18. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent states that the Monarchists are ostentatiously celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire. The Conservative press publishes extravagant eulogies of the “ good old day 3 ” of the llohenzollerns. A colonel, addressing an officers’ meeting, declared that Germany’s greatest epoch was only beginning. The time had arrived to form a national State, embracing all the German-speaking peoples of Europe, to be ruled by a Hohenzollern. THE HOHENZOLLERN PLOT. PARIS, January 18. The Matin’s Strassburg correspondent reports that the Netherlands Government possesses documents proving that the Hohenzollerns are preparing a coup d’etat. Plans were made to smuggle the Crown Prince into Germany', in order to enter Berlin at the head of troops loyal to the old regime. AN OFFICIAL DENIAL. AMSTERDAM, January 19. The Government denies any knowledge of the German Monarchist plot. THE BILL FOR REPARATIONS. BERLIN, January 19. The Government’s detailed statement estimates that 18,500,000,000 marks’ worth of material has been surrendered to the Allies towards the first instalment of 20,000,000,000 marks for reparations. HERR EBERT LONGS FOR UNITY. LONDON, January 18. Advices from Berlin state that Herr Ebert has issued a manifesto on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the empire, extolling the unity' of the German peoples, bewailing the separation of his compatriots, particularly Austria. He adds that, “despite the differences of political and economic views, and the frontiers which divide us, the unity of the Fatherland is an article of faith and an earnest hope for all. EXTORTIONATE GERMAN CLAIM. HELSINGFORS. January 23. Germany is claiming 80,000,000 marks beyond the amounts already' received for helping Finland in the 1918 war of independence, and has seized Finnish Government bonds in Germany' representing 20,000,000 marks. GERMAN REPARATION PAYMENTS. PARIS, January 20. A German official memorandum to the Reparations Committee points out that the first instalment of 20 milliards of marks will have to be paid by Mav 1.

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Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 25

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GERMANY Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 25

GERMANY Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 25

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