GERMANY’S TROUBLES

Otago Witness, Issue 3523, 20 September 1921, Page 16

GERMANY’S TROUBLES

BAVARIAN AGITATORS. BERLIN, September 11. It is officially announced that the Bavarian Government has not yet reached a final decision regarding the Berlin decrees. It appears that a compromise was reached between the Central and Bavarian Governments, but Bavaria desires to continue negotiations with a view to obtaining further concessions. September 12. The conference between the Imperial Government and the Bavarian delegation arrived at a compromise which the Bavarian Government rejected. Herr von Kahr (Bavarian Premier) has resigned, refusing to recognise any diminution of Bavaria’s sovereign rights. The entire Bavarian Cabinet has resigned. A CRASH INEVITABLE. LONDON, September 12. Lord Beaverbrook, writing to the Daily Express from Berlin, says that, while on the surface prosperity is everywhere noticeable in Germany, the era of inflation which is behind the apparent wealth and the luxury wil’ inevitably end in a crash. Germany, he says, is going through a postponed but prolonged boom, which makes our post-war boom of 1919 a tiny thing. There is nothing in the industrial position of Germany, beaten and impoverished by the Great War, to justify the rate at which she is living. As the inflation increases, and as the value of the mark declines, the spending increases. The recklessness of the whole proceedings is beyond belief. The present fool’s para dise in which the country is living is a domestic one, and has nothing to do wit!) her export trade. September 18. Lord Beaverbrook, writing to the Sunday Express from Berlin, refutes the idea that German manufacturers will capture the British export trade because the depreciation of the German currency enables German goods to be placed on foreign markets at much below the prices of British goods. Lord Beaverbrook declares that Germany is devoting herself with intense energy to repairing the internal wastage of war and not to her export trade. The advantages which depreciation of currency give German manufacturers in foreign markets are being wiped out by the increasing costs of labour and the general costs of doing business. The inflation of German currency produced internal financial chaos. It is absurd to suggest that amidst this chaos German manufacturers, are able to undertake a campaign to capture (he world’s export markets.

ERZBERGER MURDER. BERLIN, September 13. The Baden authorities ascertained that the murderers of Erzberger were a student named Tillesseir and a merchant named Schulz, who were recently living in Munich. They were members of the Ehrhard Brigade, which prominently participated in the Ivapp insurrection. The accused have not yet been arrested. Vorwaerts alleges that the Baden police are hindering the search. The Berliner Tageblatt states that many persons who were recently arrested in Berlin have confessed that they have been in communication with the murderers. LONDON, September 15. The Munich policy arrested seven exofficers on suspicion of being accomplices in Herr Erzherger’s murder. The police assert that the actual murderers, who have not been arrested, are ex-officers —Henrich Schulz (a merchant) and Heinrich Tillessen (a law student). BERLIN, September 15. Altogether 10 men (mostly ex-naval officers and students) have been arrested in Munich iit connection with the murder of Herr Erzberger. The precautions to avoid arrest taken, by the leaders of the Kapp insurrection last year were described by Dr Wirth in the Reichstag. He stated that detectives found that they were sheltering near Munich in an entrenched position, and protected by a strong guard of followers. Even Bavarian policemen approaching their hiding-place were fired on. The Chancellor alleged that the Kappites were under Bavarian protection. LONDON, September 17. The Daiiv Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent states that Erzberger’s murderers were discovered through a voung girl seeing youths answering the description of the murderers throw fragments of paper in a brook weir. Nearbv sluices were

opened and the brook drained. The paper revealed the address of the murderers in Munich. A REVOLUTION FEARED. LONDON, September 15. Ex-King Ludwig’s secretary visited Munich and hurriedly departed. The visit strengthens the Socialists’ contention that the Conservatives are plotting to re store the ex King's regime. ’the Daily Chronicle’s Berlin corrcspon dent says that the discovery of a murder gang at .Munich increases the general state of nervousness. The Radicals declare, that a reactionary revolution is being hatched throughout Germany by means of secret | societies. The Conservatives contend that j the agitation about the Monarchist pint is I intended to pave the way for disorderly J outbreaks against them. |

A HUMAN FIEND. BERLIN, September 12. Charged with murdering from 12 to 15 s women and selling their flesh in the streets ] a pedlar named Grossmann confessed to i several murders. ! i r— ——]